Team sizes: webOS versus Android versus OS X

“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