> I'd be interested what the lowest number of employees was that Apple has had since Jobs's return
It probably grew steadily through his tenure, especially with the retail extension as that requires a number of employees (Apple staff grew from ~22000 to ~32000 in 2008, as they opened 50 stores, and their temps staff grew from 2100 to 3100)
> and how big NeXT was compared to Apple at the time of or shortly after acquisition (in terms of headcount).
According to wikipedia, NeXT had 520 employees in 1992, before they switched to a mostly software-based model.
It probably grew steadily through his tenure, especially with the retail extension as that requires a number of employees (Apple staff grew from ~22000 to ~32000 in 2008, as they opened 50 stores, and their temps staff grew from 2100 to 3100)
> and how big NeXT was compared to Apple at the time of or shortly after acquisition (in terms of headcount).
According to wikipedia, NeXT had 520 employees in 1992, before they switched to a mostly software-based model.