In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, makes a customer dependent on a vendor for products, unable to use...

Project (2006-04-29). "Vendor Lock-in Definition". Retrieved 2009-06-11. Vendor lock-in, or just lock-in, is the situation in which customers are dependent...

complicated and expensive. Three types of vendor lock-in can occur with cloud computing: Platform lock-in: cloud services tend to be built on one of...

manufacturing hubs in China, its environmental impact of its supply chains, tax and monopoly practices, a lack of diversity and women in leadership in corporate...

architectures and vendors defined during runtime. Intel launched the oneAPI Math Kernel Library in November 1994, and called it Intel BLAS Library. In 1996, the...

and software that run in the serverless environment are by default locked to a specific cloud vendor. This issue is exacerbated in serverless computing...

John Scalzi Locked In (2023 film), a 2023 Psychological thriller Flow (psychology), an emotional state Vendor lock-in, in economics Lock-in amplifier,...

complete solution. Trusted clients are attractive to business as a form of vendor lock-in: sell the trusted client at a loss and charge more than would be otherwise...

more expensive than a single purchase. In addition, subscription models increase the possibility of vendor lock-in, which can have fatally business-critical...

which has been described by media outlets as a means of achieving vendor lock-in. iMessage is accessed and used using the Messages app client. Core features...

abandonment of Flex to Apache was criticized as a way to lock out independent tool developers, in favor of Adobe's commercial tools. This has been resolved...

critics. In the 2000s, a number of malware mishaps targeted security flaws in Windows and other products. Microsoft was also accused of locking vendors and...

new equipment with included cartridges. Methods of vendor lock-in include designing the cartridges in a way that makes it possible to patent certain parts...

Intego recommended that users get trusted updates "only directly from the vendor that publishes them." Adobe Flash Player has over 1078 CVE entries, of which...

a form of tightly controlled licensing, which allows the vendor to engage in vendor lock-in and charge more than it would otherwise for the product. An...

are commonly used in printers to prevent the use of third-party ink or toner cartridges. Regional lockout CIC (Nintendo) Vendor lock-in Software protection...

data stored in "silos" or "walled gardens" that are incompatible with one another, i.e. closed platforms, thus subjecting them to vendor lock-in and making...

capabilities of devices on their networks as a form of vendor lock-in. This usually results in the loss of USB and Bluetooth as sideload options (though...

attempting to hijack HTML and replace it with XAML, thus creating a vendor lock-in. Jeremy Reimer, writing for Ars Technica described this comment as "the...

A SIM lock, simlock, network lock, carrier lock or (master) subsidy lock is a technical restriction built into GSM and CDMA mobile phones by mobile phone...

sometimes needed. The pressure toward vendor lock-in was a two-edged blade for the salespeople. It was an advantage in cases where it encouraged the sale...

suppliers easier (see vendor lock-in). Users evaluating database software tend to place other factors such as performance higher in their priorities than...

architecture, a commonly cited historical example of proprietary hardware Vendor lock-in Proprietary device drivers Proprietary firmware Proprietary software...

NTSC-J NTSC PAL Parallel import Parallel importing in video games Trusted Platform Module Vendor lock-in "Letters". Next Generation. No. 29. Imagine Media...

ReactOS Shim (computing) Software regression Vendor lock-in Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin (2010), "Strategies in standard wars", Industrial Organization:...

"proprietary emoji", used as a form of vendor lock-in. In April 2017, the Pusheen Corporation acquired office space in Park Ridge, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago...

contexts (unless the goal is vendor lock-in or planned obsolescence) They are chosen such that when a product is manufactured in many different sizes, these...

critics contending that it would impose restrictions on users, enforce vendor lock-in, and undermine fair use rights and open-source software. It was first...

documents. The native file format, .abw, uses XML, so as to mitigate vendor lock-in concerns with respect to interoperability and digital archiving. The...

had been undertaken in the past (e.g., 3DA) and had generally failed, as the companies involved were too reliant on vendor lock-in[citation needed] to...