Team sizes: webOS versus Android versus OS X

[2011-08-27] mobile, webos, computers
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“webOS: une équipe de développement de 600 personnes!” by Christophe Laporte for iGeneration [via @k33g_org] compares the sizes of the teams working on the following operating systems:

  • webOS: 600 people
  • Android (in 2009): 150 people
  • OS X: 300 people [after some research: this must have been the team size at the beginning – say, in 2000 or 2001]
That’s a surprising amount of webOS engineers. I wonder if the team was as big at Palm or if it grew to that size via HP hires.

Related reading:

  1. HP will spin off PC division, stop making webOS hardware