Editing Vendor lock-in (section)

=== Personal technology lock-in ===
Technology lock-in, as defined, is strictly of the collective kind. However, the personal variant is also a possible [[permutation]] of the variations shown in the table, but with no monopoly and no collectivity, it would be expected to be the weakest lock-in. Equivalent personal examples:
* A person who has become proficient on QWERTY keyboards will have an incentive to continue using QWERTY keyboards.
* A person who has become proficient at using a [[Digital audio workstation|DAW]]'s MIDI [[piano roll]] for composition and editing will have an incentive to keep using applications that provide a piano roll, as opposed to traditional Western [[musical notation]] or a [[music tracker]].
* A car owner has an incentive to make use of their car, because gas and eventual maintenance from wear and tear is cheap compared to the cost of the car itself and the cost of insurance (assuming the insurance plan does not factor in mileage); the car is said to be a [[sunk cost]].
* A person who has ripped their CD collection to MP3 will have an incentive to prefer audio equipment that supports this format; and vice versa, for personal investment reasons, has an incentive to continue ripping to this format.
* A person who has most of their multimedia equipment interconnected with [[HDMI]] will tend to seek HDMI compatibility to all their other multimedia-capable equipment (although this is a far less severe case of lock-in than those above, due to the wide availability of [[adapter]]s that can be used to connect HDMI equipment to and from—for instance—[[Digital Visual Interface|DVI]] or [[DisplayPort]] equipment).