| > I heard from an ex-Google-intern that Google has over 1,000 people working on Chrome. And Mozilla (2016): has about 1,200 employees, revenue $520 million. Yet technically not keeping up. > Compare that with EdgeHTML's core dev team, which was well under 100 people Microsoft and Apple may choose to have smaller teams. They also only have to make each release of their browser work on their latest OS release, and they don't release to multiple OS's (Native Chrome is maintained for multiple versions of Android, ChromeOS, Linux, Windows, macOS). And the myth(?) that smaller teams are more productive! Apple and Microsoft are both outrageously rich companies: if they choose not to compete, why should we knock Google? |