Adding to this, it has already started happening on phones in the form of propreitary carrier locked devices being artificially cheaper than normal phones that you don’t even “own”, they are going for the ultra budget range first, then climb up from there, it will take a while to jump to computers but I absolutely see no reason for it to not start happening, after all the majority of users use Windows anyways, it can spread slowly.

It doesn’t need to happen 100%, they simply need to kick any manufacturer making such open devices out of the affordable range for the masses, after all it’s only the poor that need not have access to knowledge.