...5 of which came from actual Apple employees. Putting it in perspective, the WebKit Open Source maintainers made more contributions today than the people who are paid to do so.
No I mean the total number of developers. I know software is growing, but having doubled since 2019 (and it wasn't small in 2019 either) is beyond reasonable.
Many non-developers treat the keynote as the source of information for future products. Many proto-developers start with the iOS platform. Sounds a lot, but non unreasonable to me.
Are there estimates of how many people have registered a developper account?
Whoa. That seems like a heck of a lot. I wonder if this is active developers (those currently paying for an account as individuals or as part of a team).
In VisionMobile's "Developer Economics Q3 2013" [1]
(page 57) there is an estimate that 1 in 8 sofware developers in the world was involved in mobile development in 2013, for a total of 2.3 million mobile developers. That would put the total numbers of developers, any kind, at 18.4 million.
That is total number of employees worldwide. so lets conservatively take off a third. Also Reasonably only a third of those employees (probably a lot less at amazon) are actually developers. That gives us ~200,000. The Bureau of Labor statics says there are 1,200,000 software developers in the US in 2016.
FAANG does make up a lot more software development jobs than I thought, I would have to say a significant portion. Very interesting.
I often wonder how they count those developers numbers if it was not paid Apple Developer programme.
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