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> a single business product There is no program called Office.exe. Microsoft Office is not a single business product; it is a suite of products.
by flowerlad 5y ago
> a single business product
There is no program called Office.exe. Microsoft Office is not a single business product; it is a suite of products.
- coldtea 5y agoWhich is not really relevant or interesting. A product is not necessarily a program (an executable). A suite can be a product too, and you can absolutely sell a suite as a single SKU. In fact that's exactly what MS does 90% of the time, and it even used to sell it in shrink-wrapped box form.
- flowerlad 5y agoAnd that's what Apple's subscription is selling too. So it doesn't make sense to say Microsoft's offering is a "single product" and Apple's is "a range of consumer offerings".
- coldtea 5y agoWell, Apple doesn't have a single subscription, they have several in totally unrelated areas (from Music to AppleCare, and from renewing your Iphone model every year leasing-style to Cloud backup). They do offer bundles for some, but not for others.
- salamandersauce 5y agoCan you even buy a standalone copy of Word or Excel anymore? You can't subscribe to them individually and you can't buy them individually so what does it matter if there is 5 *.exes or 1?