You'd be surprised how little price factors into the equation for decisions like this. Anyone that tried to acquire customers as a fresh start-up knows that trust means a lot to established companies.
Yup. Engineers can intuit quality up to a point from very weak signals. Those signals become illegible _really fast_ the further you move in competence from the core domain of the offering - and after that all you have as a decision maker are _market_ signals such as known brand.
fsloth|11 days ago