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I would argue that connected devices should only rely on your services - otherwise how do you know that they're not going away? And if they're your services th

• the_snooze 2y ago
  "Your services" aren't entirely yours. Practically speaking, no one builds systems entirely from scratch. A service likely has remote dependencies too, some of which will trickle down to the clients of your service. For Spotify specifically, they rely on SSO providers and third-party payments services; if those APIs change, then the client will likely require updates even though Spotify didn't change anything in their own core functionality.