> I don't see car enthusiasts lamenting (maybe they do, I just don't see them) that Joe Average has no idea how to tune a carburetor I think they do, and you j

> I don't see car enthusiasts lamenting (maybe they do, I just don't see them) that Joe Average has no idea how to tune a carburetor I think they do, and you just don't see them. I think what the author describe has been happening a lot and even more violently in the car industry. I just think the average Joe doesn't have enough incentive to care and will just throw his car and buy a new one if there is an issue. But for some specific users it has became really apparent. One of the trend in the farming truck industry is to numerically mark all components of the truck "to help farmer identify and repair". Practically, a lot of truck will behave like printers and stop working if they detect a component is defective / not original even if the fault is minor. Thus, for a while, farmers used hackers services to bypass those costly replacements. But as the manufacturing companies are catching up, it's becoming harder and harder. So the net result is that trucks from the 80's have seen their price explode as they are deemed much more reliable and can be fixed without requiring an authorization. (https://jalopnik.com/classic-tractors-from-the-80s-are-becoming-popular-with-1840854969 https://jalopnik.com/classic-tractors-from-the-80s-are-becom...) I think the vendor lock-in trend might have originated in the tech industries but is definitely trending everywhere (computers, phones, cars, coffee machines, printers, video games, can you name more..?).