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Service company can deprive you of your data/services. For example if you lose login credentials, as might happen when a person dies, or your account is stolen, or the service provider terminates the account. (see for example, [[Microsoft account]], [[Google account]]). | Service company can deprive you of your data/services. For example if you lose login credentials, as might happen when a person dies, or your account is stolen, or the service provider terminates the account. (see for example, [[Microsoft account]], [[Google account]]). | ||
=== (Often) Lack of competition === | ===(Often) Lack of competition=== | ||
{{Main|Forced cloud}} | {{Main|Forced cloud}} | ||
Cloud services bundled with products often don't come with the ability to change providers for those services. This puts the product into a direct dependency from the service providers chosen by the manufacturer (often themselves), which: | Cloud services bundled with products often don't come with the ability to change providers for those services. This puts the product into a direct dependency from the service providers chosen by the manufacturer (often themselves), which: | ||
* artificially prevents demand for the same service from other providers, preventing the emergence of competitive markets in respective market niches, giving financial advantage to chosen providers for non-competitive reasons, as well as preventing users from switching from providers they don't trust, e. g. after security incidents | *artificially prevents demand for the same service from other providers, preventing the emergence of competitive markets in respective market niches, giving financial advantage to chosen providers for non-competitive reasons, as well as preventing users from switching from providers they don't trust, e. g. after security incidents | ||
* threatens [[Right to own|ownership over the product]], as terms of service can be altered unilaterally through technical means, and prevention of this through legal means is difficult or impossible | *threatens [[Right to own|ownership over the product]], as terms of service can be altered unilaterally through technical means, and prevention of this through legal means is difficult or impossible | ||
* limits the use of the product in unusual environments which manufacturer-chosen providers have no willingness or capacity to support, since they provide service for ''all'' users of the product, and therefore prioritize features that benefit wider circles of users, effectively reducing product capabilities. A particularly frequent example of this is functioning of a product with no internet access, which, in addition to being desirable to some users running private networks where access to the internet is restricted or unavailable, is a safeguard against accidents on service provider's side, such as when internet-enabled bed accessories by [[Eight Sleep]] were rendered non-adjustable due to an outage at Amazon Web Services<ref>{{Cite web |last=Castro-Sloboda |first=Giselle |date=2025-10-22 |title=Owners of Luxury Smart Beds Literally Lost Sleep Due to AWS Outage |url=https://www.cnet.com/health/sleep/owners-of-luxury-smart-beds-literally-lost-sleep-due-to-aws-outage/ |url-status=live}}</ref> (also showcasing [[Cloud (service)#Service concentration within cloud computing companies|the problem of service concentration]]) | *limits the use of the product in unusual environments which manufacturer-chosen providers have no willingness or capacity to support, since they provide service for ''all'' users of the product, and therefore prioritize features that benefit wider circles of users, effectively reducing product capabilities. A particularly frequent example of this is functioning of a product with no internet access, which, in addition to being desirable to some users running private networks where access to the internet is restricted or unavailable, is a safeguard against accidents on service provider's side, such as when internet-enabled bed accessories by [[Eight Sleep]] were rendered non-adjustable due to an outage at Amazon Web Services<ref>{{Cite web |last=Castro-Sloboda |first=Giselle |date=2025-10-22 |title=Owners of Luxury Smart Beds Literally Lost Sleep Due to AWS Outage |url=https://www.cnet.com/health/sleep/owners-of-luxury-smart-beds-literally-lost-sleep-due-to-aws-outage/ |url-status=live |website=CNET}}</ref> (also showcasing [[Cloud (service)#Service concentration within cloud computing companies|the problem of service concentration]]) | ||
==Alternatives== | ==Alternatives== | ||
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*AI compute (inference) servers which power AI chatbots and agents. (for example, [[Google Gemini]], [[ChatGPT]], [[Microsoft Copilot]]). | *AI compute (inference) servers which power AI chatbots and agents. (for example, [[Google Gemini]], [[ChatGPT]], [[Microsoft Copilot]]). | ||
== | ==See also== | ||
*[[ | *[[wikipedia:Content_delivery_network|Content delivery network]] ([[CDN]]) | ||
*[[Internet of things]] | *[[Internet of things]] | ||