Yes, but how many cars do you know that sell for $300?
This sort of logic is enshrined in consumer law as well - the courts idea of a reasonable lifetime for a product is tied to the amount you pay.
If you buy a $50,000 car new, sure, a reasonable person could expect it to last 5-10 years.
You buy a $200 webcam? I somehow doubt you'll be able to argue that it must work 3 years later - if it does, great. If it doesn't, well, what's a reasonable lifetime?
And a lot of armchair commentators seems to underplay the amount of sheer engineering effort or cost involved in these sorts of things - it's not a case of spinning up some AWS instances, and hacking together some PHP on your weekend and deploying.
To get a reliable service, with some decent SLA, which handles changing load and tolerates failures probably takes significant infrastructure (cloud or bare-metal), as well as a team of software engineers and site reliability engineers. Not to mention support teams.
This sort of logic is enshrined in consumer law as well - the courts idea of a reasonable lifetime for a product is tied to the amount you pay.
If you buy a $50,000 car new, sure, a reasonable person could expect it to last 5-10 years.
You buy a $200 webcam? I somehow doubt you'll be able to argue that it must work 3 years later - if it does, great. If it doesn't, well, what's a reasonable lifetime?
And a lot of armchair commentators seems to underplay the amount of sheer engineering effort or cost involved in these sorts of things - it's not a case of spinning up some AWS instances, and hacking together some PHP on your weekend and deploying.
To get a reliable service, with some decent SLA, which handles changing load and tolerates failures probably takes significant infrastructure (cloud or bare-metal), as well as a team of software engineers and site reliability engineers. Not to mention support teams.