[TeMPOraL]

How many times SaaS startups have to disappear without a trace but a single post about their and yours great journey and founders being happy you helped them drink their drinks on a beach in hot summer, before people wise up?

Answer: quite a lot apparently, since it keeps happening and people don't wise up, and it has reached the point where the behaviour described above is a standard practice (known as "exit"), and it's the reason many start a startup in the first place. Such people pretty much intend to screw their customers from day one, and apparently customers are happy to being screwed time after time.

I don't see this changing for hardware.