Although customers may find this annoying, it is unclear whether it is an abuse of market power to lock in users (see article).

虽然客户觉得这很讨厌，但是是否存在锁定客户的市场权力的滥用却不明显。

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When you take a technology and unregulate it and let the market operate, you'll get way better results than when you lock a technology up in the hands of one owner.

把一项技术拿来不做约束地交给市场运作，比让它被唯一的运营商控制要好得多。

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These difficulties exacerbate the complexity and maintainability of such systems, promote vendor lock-in, and increase the need for long-term legacy support in the enterprise market.

这些困难恶化了这类系统的复杂性和可维护性、增强了厂商锁定、增加了企业市场中对传统系统长期支持的需要。

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Regional pacts may help lock in free-market reforms, particularly in developing countries.

ECONOMIST: Do regional trade agreements encourage free trade?

Some analysts still hope that ecosystem lock-in will let Apple lock in considerable dominance of a market that otherwise wants to explode into diversity.

WSJ: Jenkins: Apple's New Normal

But many foreigners are likely to wish the Malaysian market good riddance after serving their year in lock-up.

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