[beezle]

A better analogy might be if a tire company could only sell its tires through the Ford/GM "store"/dealership. Nobody would put up with that.

[m4rtink]

Yet people put up with hardware lock-in on printer toner and cartridges (which is also very wrong).

[alt227]

Not willingly.

Theres plenty of uproar and lawsuits around that one too.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-sued-again-for-bl...

[johnnyanmac]

I don't. I barely have a need to print to begin with but just enough that I have a printer. Printers aren't continually iterating in what and how they can print so I can survive on 10+ year old printers.