[ferdowsi]

I'm sympathetic to all those who lost their jobs, but I'm a bit baffled that 400 people were working on this. Can someone enlighten me as to why so much headcount was required by this project?

[laweijfmvo]

400 people for an essentially from-scratch OS? That's incredibly lean as far as tech companies are concerned these days.

[forgotpwd16]

It's a microkernel-based capability-based object-oriented operating system. They're trying to make commercially viable what is essentially a research project.

[mathverse]

How is that a lot if this product should be the differentiator for Google between them and all the ones using just Android?