Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Google and Huawei

By Kyle Rankin

What happens when you're locked in to a vendor that's too big to fail, but is on the opposite end of a trade war?

Vendor lock-in isn't new, but until the last decade or so, it generally was thought of by engineers as a bad thing. Companies would take advantage the fact that you used one of their products that was legitimately good to use the rest of their products that may or may not be as good as those from their competitors. People felt the pain of being stuck with inferior products and rebelled.

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