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by winter_blue 4217 days ago
> The cost of acquisition is less than the cost of developing it themselves.

Would it really cost over $200 million to clone Acompli?

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$200 million = 200 million users * 1 year * $1. So easy to make a profit with Microsoft's many more millions of customers.

User loyalty is a lot more expensive than lines of code.