

Bloomberg’s sales reps, who speak like twenty languages, including corporate speak across every major bank. Then there is the support brings up an analyst who can take a spreadsheet and turn it around as a completed work product. Every user has a unique set of mission-critical functions they would need replaced to switch. The terminal transforms those data through tens of thousands specialised, constantly-maintained tools. On top of that are specialised reference data like an App Store, there are entire businesses built on serving over Bloomberg. Something like 35 million assets have pricing pipes to Bloomberg. The data feeds are ridiculously numerous.

data feeds just replicate it for considerably less money? Couldn't someone with a cheap windows PC and a pair of monitors + misc.
