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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by RyanDScott on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:35PM (#2180796)
>That doesn't extrapolate to better products or better anything.

Agreed. So maybe we should be asking how Apple is growing faster than Nokia with fewer resources?

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by pavlov on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:56PM (#2180890)
Nokia suffers from the mythical man-month. They've only recently discovered that throwing 6,000 engineers at Symbian didn't make it better.
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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by fdghjkh on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:08PM (#2181238)
But to be fair - they have now hired another 6000 HR managers to work out why not
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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by xenophanes on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:17PM (#2181274)
That's not very fair :-)
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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by fdghjkh on Friday February 04, 2011 @04:41PM (#2181369)
Don't worry they have set up a series of "Strategy Boutiques" (seriously!) to get over it

http://www.slideshare.net/whatidiscover/open-innovation-in-a...

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