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by chii
3244 days ago
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> it basically puts your company product under someone else's rules, and if those rules changes or worse, if these companies go bankrupt, migrating to another system could be the death of your product as well. This is basically where standards has to come in. Imagine if electricity was not standarized - you'd have to buy into one frequency or another. Then you'd face the same problem as with using BaaS! I say, there needs to be standardization, so that commodities can be commodities. Companies like to pretend they are some special snowflake that sells something unique and un-replicable. That's not at all the case, and i wish that more people call them out on it. Making sure that standards exists for a particular commodity offering (e.g., apis, or via some sort of RFC), or don't use them at all. |
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Ever tried traveling around the world (or even just around Europe) with an electric device? Now... once you picked up an adapter at the hardware store, how difficult was it? "Not much of a problem" for most folks, somewhere between "a moderate pain" and "ruined my device" for the few with special issues.