That's kinda like saying Bob built a go-kart in his garage over a couple months, it moves you from A to B, I don't see why a Toyota Corolla needs a massive factory. Spotify's product isn't just a streaming media player. It's also all the infrastructure to produce the streams, at scale, for millions of users.
How often are you actually launching spotify? I start it once when I boot and that's it until my next reboot, weeks/months later.
Now you might of course ask, "why isn't the velocity 6554x that of winamp, even when correcting for non-eng staff, management, overhead, etc". Well, they probably simply aren't allocating that much to the client development.
Also often times one dev who knows exactly what he is doing can be way more effective than a team; no bikeshedding, communication, PRs, etc. What happens when they get hit by a bus?
How often are you actually launching spotify? I start it once when I boot and that's it until my next reboot, weeks/months later.
Now you might of course ask, "why isn't the velocity 6554x that of winamp, even when correcting for non-eng staff, management, overhead, etc". Well, they probably simply aren't allocating that much to the client development.
Also often times one dev who knows exactly what he is doing can be way more effective than a team; no bikeshedding, communication, PRs, etc. What happens when they get hit by a bus?