Your smartwatch will stop working someday, and the company gets to decide when

Just because you own a piece of technology hardware doesn't mean that it'll keep working forever. In fact, all tech has a shelf life, and hardware companies call the shots when it comes to deciding how long to continue to keep a product working. They could, like Spotify in 2022 or Google in 2016, decide to brick a product in the field by pulling the plug on supporting it.