Comment by howunfortunate
4 days ago
I work for a company where this is relevant.
Leadership is very aware of this and is accordingly being very careful about how easy we make it for people to instantly offload all of the data they've entered that makes our product worth using vs. a competitor.
I'm not saying this is good, obviously as a consumer I'd like the opposite. All I'm saying is, don't expect companies to be naive about this. If you don't want to be "locked in", you'll likely have to pay for that in some other way.
Appropriate username!
> If you don't want to be "locked in", you'll likely have to pay for that in some other way.
That "some other way" is almost never via the wallet. From Apple to Whoop to Snowflake to Oracle, the most expensive ecosystems are often the ones with the most lock-in. More often than not, the "some other way" you pay is by having to put up with janky UX and incomplete featuresets.