[api]

> This angers the industrial internet-of-things community.

Hopefully they'll learn that if it's locked down to being tied to one person's cloud it's likely to become a paperweight in a few years.

[solarkraft]

I still think it's generally terrible style to fully depend on external services (and should probably legislatively disallowed), but there are differences. You can probably get a contract over a decade from some vendors.