# Services Become Software, Software Becomes Services

the $6-to-$1 services-vs-software inversion

Julien Bek's April 2026 essay "Services: The New Software" (3M views on X) noted that for every $1 the world spends on software, it spends about $6 on services. This piece flips the old logic — the past turned services into software; the future turns software into services — and asks what that inversion does to how businesses are built.

**中文原文 · 知乎:** https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/2061971179720781889

**English original · X:** coming soon