Amiga was such a small team, though. I mean how many people work on the latest iPhone, compared to something like the Amiga 1000? All Amigas were designed by small, dedicated teams, mostly because Commodore didn't want to spend anything on R&D.
These days, it's not a small group of pioneers changing the world of technology. You're just another expendable worker drone in a huge mega-corporation like Google, MS or Apple. No one will ask you to put your signature inside the latest iPad or Surface or whatever. If you leave, there will be hundreds ready to take your place.
The A1000 was mostly designed before commodore bought them & so the lack of R&D money wasn't commodores fault. From listening to the stories from the people who were there, I get the impression that commodore provided them with more money than they had ever seen for R&D.
The A500 was probably the last money well spent by commodore though & it caused a permanent rift between Amiga and commodore. After that they started pouring money into AAA, which was never going to be good.
More people worked on the A1000 than we have heard from & Apple just buy in all the components anyway. So it's kinda hard to compare, but if you did try then you should include the people who worked on the 68000 and the 8520's as well.
It's not such a small team & not all of them got their signature on the case. But yeah the marketing outside the UK sucked (in the UK it was good enough for a while).
