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Regardless of outcome, it must feel pretty good to know you and your company ended up being a keystone in corporate tech history. Very few people get to say they were at the meeting when these subscription models became the future. Historians 30 years down the road would love you if you wrote a book about your perspective on it.


>Very few people get to say they were at the meeting when these subscription models became the future.

Yeah, it's like being at the meeting where planned obsolelense was first invented, or when a telco devised the "jump through hoops to to cancel your service" concept...


They invented the multi year "free" device and contract bundle. If you are not on one of those it is quite easy to cancel or change provider.


Is this comment parody? I guess Poe’s Law applies, I’m genuinely mystified.




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