[kitsunesoba]

You can reasonably easily share the bulk of your mac/iOS/tvOS/watchOS codebases, and apple is actively working to push that percentage higher. So really, you’re not looking at 1-3 “mac people”, but rather 1-3 “Apple people”.

Android dev is messy business, no question there, especially if you care enough about experience quality to test across a broad range of phones, OS versions, launchers, etc. It’s no wonder why the average Android dev team is 2x the size of the average iOS dev team. Not much you can do there but hope Google makes an effort to clean up (and it seems they are, albeit slowly).

Even with all these platform specialists accounted for, companies like Slack and Spotify aren’t hiring any more engineers than they would otherwise. The only difference is instead of hiring specialists, they’re hiring hordes of web front end.