That may be true, but its the 1 huge customer vs a million little ones problem. Sure when you win the hyperscaler contract you hit the jackpot, but OTOH, when y

That may be true, but its the 1 huge customer vs a million little ones problem. Sure when you win the hyperscaler contract you hit the jackpot, but OTOH, when you don't you go out of businesses. Having a few thousand developers testing/optimizing/etc compilers/OSs/databases/web servers/etc all make it easier to win the hyperscaler contract, than spending months wondering why docker doesn't run correctly and loosing the contract. So, a company may only be making a dollar on each machine sold, but is gaining thousands of hours of beta testing, or actual engineering in return. I should add though, that this months basement hacker is next years businessman buying in lots of 5k to fulfill some small niche market. Do that enough times and eventually the next netflix/facebook app just happens to be running on your hardware.