Google is doing this for Chromebooks. If they want to lock out other vendors from making Chromebooks, they don't have to make a custom CPU, they'd just have to

Google is doing this for Chromebooks. If they want to lock out other vendors from making Chromebooks, they don't have to make a custom CPU, they'd just have to fork Chrome OS and Android. But they don't want to corner the Chromebook market, they want wide adoption. > And because they are not OEMing this hardware, they really have no incentive to be cooperative with the others. Similar to older gaming console that had custom and experimental architectures. What exactly is this referring to? Are you saying that game consoles should only use chips that are available to other manufacturers, or that every game console should be an IBM-PC compatible, like the first Xbox.