Interesting, this strategic commercial behaviour spans themes of both a coercive monopoly and planned obsolescence.
As a hardware manufacturer, they recognise there are business sectors that are getting cannibalised by competition through imitation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercive_monopoly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform
I'm seeing more of this emerging at a product-level like we see here with HP and a stiffening or rejection of interoperability or universal standards, and also at a macro-level, like nationalism (anti-globailisation / free trade). Interesting times.
