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Everything else is 'clearly' a service? On what basis? You buy a product, it has these features, you can do these things, that's the product. Being able to pla
by alphaalpha101 9y ago
Everything else is 'clearly' a service? On what basis? You buy a product, it has these features, you can do these things, that's the product.
Being able to play music on a 'smart speaker' from my phone isn't a service, it's just a feature of the product. If you sell a product with features that require you to host some servers somewhere publicly accessible on the internet, that doesn't make that product feature a service.
Don't like that? Don't include those features in your product. Design them better so you don't have to forever maintain these servers.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoTo be fair, one of the "features" is streaming Spotify, which may require a constant dance to keep up with API changes.
- alphaalpha101 9y ago'Compatible with service X' is a feature. If it stops being compatible with service X because service X changed their API, then you either need to fix it so it's compatible again, or refund to your customers. If you want to announce you are compatible with service X as a feature, you should have an agreement of compatibility with service X.