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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lock-in is quite an old strategy in Tech (back in the day Microsoft's dominance was built on it) and apparently every new generation needs to learn their lesson...

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

That's true, back in the 1970s and 1980s IBM locked companies in with mainframes and PCs were their way out.

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