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Your first point reminds me of a recent podcast[1] where Tren Griffin said that sometimes the hardware is simply a distribution channel for the software, which
by alexpetralia 8y ago
Your first point reminds me of a recent podcast[1] where Tren Griffin said that sometimes the hardware is simply a distribution channel for the software, which is where all the margins are. He called this "software in a box."
[1] http://investorfieldguide.com/tren/ http://investorfieldguide.com/tren/
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThis has been common for years now in the IoT sphere, and begins to infect everything in computing too. To be honest, I just fucking hate it. When companies turn a product into a service, they can afford selling entry package at a loss, thus driving out competitors who sell products as products. Suddenly, you have yet another thing for which you need recurring payments (instead of one-time), and which will only work as long as the provider likes it. You lose freedom and control.
- kenning 8y agoFor me the classic example of this is photoshop. You cannot buy old photoshop licenses anymore because they realized that people are happy with them.