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Yes, and it's quite hard to do compete with the big companies on what they're trying to achieve with much more people.
by xiphias 10y ago
Yes, and it's quite hard to do compete with the big companies on what they're trying to achieve with much more people.
- zaroth 10y agoMore people can be as much of a liability as not. A core team of 40 people can certainly make the software and hardware design. It's as big as a core team should ever be for a product the scale of a smartphone, IMO. Obviously it takes 1000s to scale, and optimize, and automate every last thing. But to build the first 1? Team of 40.
- iainmerrick 10y agoAndroid was originally built with a small team, and Andy Rubin resisted growing the team for a long time. But a lot of the worst parts of the design were laid down at that point, so I'm not sure it was necessarily such a good approach!
- HillaryBriss 10y agoyes! imho, that's the noteworthy aspect of this story. those two features (Andy Rubin. small team.) of the original Android platform are going to try again? the track record is not great. if Google hadn't bought it and used its vast powers to promote the thing, would it even still exist? i don't know. maybe they'll get it right this time...