Back at the turn of the century, when I was a product manager at Lucent Technologies building xDSL models (does anyone remember what those were?), my favorite part of the job was sitting at the intersection of sales and finance to manage product P&Ls.
This is interesting stuff. I feel like it’s a B2B reflection of the subscriptionifying (technical term) of every day life. We don’t own CDs we stream Apple Music, we don’t own movies we stream content, we don’t own Microsoft office we access 365 online. Even cars are charging subscription access to heated seats. Access over ownership is a shortsighted trade for us on the front lines but not sure we have much say in the matter so far.
This is interesting stuff. I feel like it’s a B2B reflection of the subscriptionifying (technical term) of every day life. We don’t own CDs we stream Apple Music, we don’t own movies we stream content, we don’t own Microsoft office we access 365 online. Even cars are charging subscription access to heated seats. Access over ownership is a shortsighted trade for us on the front lines but not sure we have much say in the matter so far.