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So? What are we supposed to take away from that? They have more numbers? That doesn't extrapolate to better products or better anything.

I don't think this article is praise for Nokia, quite the opposite. They are saying that Apple is much more efficient.

More to the point, Nokia is losing profit compared to Apple:

so measuring efficiency as net income per employee the contrast is more stark.

>That doesn't extrapolate to better products or better anything.

Agreed. So maybe we should be asking how Apple is growing faster than Nokia with fewer resources?

Nokia suffers from the mythical man-month. They've only recently discovered that throwing 6,000 engineers at Symbian didn't make it better.

But to be fair - they have now hired another 6000 HR managers to work out why not

That's not very fair :-)

Don't worry they have set up a series of "Strategy Boutiques" (seriously!) to get over it