More like collusion to fundamentally break the standard before it is allowed to flourish. What if you had a power plug that worked with outlets anywhere, except

More like collusion to fundamentally break the standard before it is allowed to flourish. What if you had a power plug that worked with outlets anywhere, except if you plugged it in in certain businesses, whereby they only were usable at said business, and were a brick otherwise. This is what AT&T has been doing with Apple's eSIMs.