'Lock-in' is pervasive in IT. Programming languages, content management systems, rdbms's, virtualization platforms, etc., etc, etc. That hasn't stopped us though from leveraging a technology when it provides us some good value. Then, when we get to a place where it's not meeting our needs-- we come up with a migration strategy.
Nothing new here, same 'lock-in' problem we've faced for years with just about everything.
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'Lock-in' is pervasive in IT. Programming languages, content management systems, rdbms's, virtualization platforms, etc., etc, etc. That hasn't stopped us though from leveraging a technology when it provides us some good value. Then, when we get to a place where it's not meeting our needs-- we come up with a migration strategy. Nothing new here, same 'lock-in' problem we've faced for years with just about everything.
I know it's printed on the back of an iPhone. I'm sure that could have been used to track down who the phone belonged to.