Hardware's not generally a subscription, monthly cost though.
You update it for them every 3/4 years (if they're lucky).
It probably makes a bit more sense to compare it to existing software subscriptions like Office, or the old-school 'per-seat' licenses per user for software.
There's some software that can cost $1k or more per seat/month, but it's pretty rare. Big tier ERPs usually fall in the ~$600/seat/moth range, specialty engineering stuff can hit over $1k, Bloomberg terminal, etc. I wonder if what Uber's building with that $1.5k/month/employee is actually delivering the same value that something like an ERP would to the entire org...