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		alayne on June 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Has Apple Spawned So Few Startups? Like others, I'm not sure that Apple has spawned few startups. The evidence here is weak. Apple's innovations have been primarily about hardware design. I would think there are many fewer hardware startups than software startups due to the amount of capital required to build hardware. It might be more apropos to compare the number of startups from other hardware companies (Intel, Nvidia, TI, HP, Sun).

oblio on June 7, 2015 [–]

Still, don't they employ something like 100k software engineers?

vilmosi on June 7, 2015 | | [–]

Not really, most of their workforce are "geniuses" and the like

Alphasite_ on June 7, 2015 | | [–]

Last I checked they had 50k total staff and a big chunk of that would be in sales.

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