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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by masklinn on Friday February 04, 2011 @02:39PM (#2180817)
According to Asymco's data, Nokia also spends 10.2% of their phone revenue on R&D, versus 2.5% for Apple.
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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by fdghjkh on Friday February 04, 2011 @03:17PM (#2180988)
Except R+D at nokia means anyone not actually bolting phones together.

Having 4 competing operating systems, each with their own layers of management and their own VPs all fighting each other - counts as R+D spend.

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Re:Nokia has as many people for smartphone software as Apple... by metageek on Friday February 04, 2011 @03:24PM (#2181023)
Four? I see S40, Symbian, and MeeGo.

Or are you counting the touch-based and non-touch-based Symbians separately? There'd be some justice in that.

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