lockin

"I guess they ain't much need o 'lockin' YOUR door," he retorted darkly;

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

But if someone feels that they cannot take up the responsibility of managing money and creating enough funds for their children thro Mutual Funds, then some kind of lockin product should be picked.

rediff.com 2008

But if someone feels that they cannot take up the responsibility of managing money and creating enough funds for their children thro Mutual Funds, then some kind of lockin product should be picked.

rediff.com 2008

But if someone feels that they cannot take up the responsibility of managing money and creating enough funds for their children thro Mutual Funds, then some kind of lockin product should be picked.

rediff.com 2008

But if someone feels that they cannot take up the responsibility of managing money and creating enough funds for their children thro Mutual Funds, then some kind of lockin product should be picked.

rediff.com 2008

So, that leaves me skeptical of just how great Step Up 3D is going to look on the screen, not to mention my willingness to pay an extra $4 per ticket just to watch Channing Tatum (or is it Tatum Channing?) do some in your face poppin 'and lockin'.

In Which I Briefly Review Shutter Island and Shrek Forever After wendigomountain 2010

There are two ways to view the decision: either Apple is dragging the rest of the web, kicking and screaming, towards HTML5, greater security, more browser stability, and away from proprietary lockin - a sort of software version of the abandonment of the floppy drive with the iMac in 1997 (though of course the floppy was standard, although creaky).

Apple stops bundling Adobe Flash player on Macs 'for security' Charles Arthur 2010

It preserves the patriarchic walled garden hierarchy of app-lockin and single-vendor-mediated consumer experience!

Steve Jobs hates the App Store | FactoryCity 2009

DRM, or other kinds of device lockin, make it even more likely that an ebook will one day turn out to be useless.

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

This is all eerily similar of the kind of "vendor lockin" that, in the private sector, only a monopoly provider could engage in.

Do Progressives Believe This?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009