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Comment by jonny_eh | Hacker News Reader

Why not the other way around? You can use .service as you would a .factory, and it makes sense that .service is used to create services just like .controller creates controllers.

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Because .factory is slightly more general (can return non-objects), and it can't be called .service because backward compatibility.

The article seems to be down for me. Can you give an example of a case where a .service won't cut it but a . Factory would?

.factory('$timeout', function($window) {

  var $timeout = $window.setTimeout;


  return $timeout;

})

.service('$timeout', function($window) {

  // $timeout is a function, not an normal object. Why would I use a constructor
  //function to provide it?

});

I want the bike shed to be blue, god dammit!

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