> How much does an enterprise desktop PC with a 3+GHz CPU cost? Surely less than 2K USD. How much does a developer cost?
But the software runs on the computers of all of their users. How much money do their users' computers cost? If you have just 10k users, probably $10M or so? But software companies don't pay for my computer's resources. The money I need to spend on computer hardware isn't priced in to your calculus at all. They don't care.
But the software runs on the computers of all of their users. How much money do their users' computers cost? If you have just 10k users, probably $10M or so? But software companies don't pay for my computer's resources. The money I need to spend on computer hardware isn't priced in to your calculus at all. They don't care.
I find it pretty frustrating and sad.