This quote: | This kind of product will often be expected to be used for 5+ years and the dependency of a non-core service from Google could affect that. Is r

This quote: | This kind of product will often be expected to be used for 5+ years and the dependency of a non-core service from Google could affect that. Is related to this quote: | I'm sort of confused about the annual management / support fee To spell it out more, here's an apt passage from Stratechery <https://stratechery.com/2017/wannacry-and-the-power-of-business-models/> https://stratechery.com/2017/wannacry-and-the-power-of-busin...: | This is exactly what is necessary for good security: vendors need to keep their applications (or in the case of Microsoft, operating systems) updated, and end users need to always be using the latest version. Moreover, pricing software as a service means it is no longer a capital cost with all of the one-time payment assumptions that go with it: rather, it is an ongoing expense that implicitly includes maintenance, whether that be by the vendor or the end user (or, likely, a combination of the two).