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Originally Posted by haertig
How many humans do you think it took to design, develop, test, manufacture and ship that Lenova tablet? How many humans it took to design something is not a criteria I typically use to decide whether buy it or not.
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You are missing the point. Alexa needs 1000s of people to keep it working. The actual electronics and SW is simple compared to an eInk reader or Android Tablet.
No idea, but it could have been done with a small team once. I developed a 4G type phone sized tablet proof of concept demo with one helper in 2007. I did an industrial controller board with one helper in 1980. A more serious industrial controller in a case with custome LCD panel used a team of four and two years.
The original ARM CPU and then Archimedes PC plus Risc OS was a small team. Lenovo didn't have to write an OS (which originally was written by a small team and bought in).
The Listening Companions are a fraud. They need 1000s of humans listing to conversations all the time. That's why Amazon is looking at making 10,000 people redundant.