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Ben Thompson nails it, as usual:

"The brilliance of paying on a subscription basis is that a company can buy exactly what it needs, when it needs it, and no more."

From https://stratechery.com/2019/microsoft-slack-zoom-and-the-sa...

He's written about this in other posts too.




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