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MSFT is more diversified and has a lot of sticky B2B customers while AAPL is mostly B2C. Sure, they are selling to businesses too, but MacBooks can be easily re
by this_user 4y ago
MSFT is more diversified and has a lot of sticky B2B customers while AAPL is mostly B2C. Sure, they are selling to businesses too, but MacBooks can be easily replaced, unlike MS Office and its like.
- bob1029 4y ago> has a lot of sticky B2B customers Indeed. We are all-in on using .NET6+ for building software for our customers. This locks us into VS/Azure/Windows subscriptions as a side-effect. Our clients sign 5+ year contracts, so we aren't leaving this area any time soon. There are certainly less expensive ways we could run our business and deliver our product, but the amount of risk associated with those options is far beyond what our investors, leadership and customers would tolerate.
- arwineap 4y agoFWIW, we run .NET6+ on linux / docker on AWS
- bob1029 4y agoBiggest reason we are stuck on windows is because we use some windows-specific dependencies. If we dedicated ~6 months we could consider cross platform, but that would just be the beginning of the conversation. The 3rd party hosting/licensing costs on a per-customer basis don't even approach 1% of the total cost of the solution.