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When did 'locked in' evolve to mean 'using a product'? None of your examples are remotly akin to lock-in. An example of a lock-in is excel back in the time whe
by Voloskaya 6y ago
When did 'locked in' evolve to mean 'using a product'?
None of your examples are remotly akin to lock-in.
An example of a lock-in is excel back in the time when the format wasn't public. Wanna use something different? have fun manually re-entering your sheets in your new software.
How can GitHub CodeSpaces even cross your mind when thinking about lock-in? This is like saying the textbox on HN is a form of lock-in.
- grishka 6y ago> An example of a lock-in is excel back in the time when the format wasn't public. It wasn't public but it was reverse engineered and supported by things like OpenOffice. Anything, especially a file format, that is both proprietary and popular gets reverse engineered at some point.