After having been burned one too many times, I now mentally substitute "lifetime" with "data loss". Services pitching "lifetime" seem to either wildly miscalcu

After having been burned one too many times, I now mentally substitute "lifetime" with "data loss". Services pitching "lifetime" seem to either wildly miscalculate the effect of pathological usage, fail to do accurate math on support, or are betting on shifts in the pricing of storage/bandwidth or computer that fail to emerge. There's a lot of justifiable angst around "everything becoming a SAAS" but if I'm comparing services and betting which will be around in a year: I'm paying the monthly fee.