Right now, if a company starts using the cloud services of one provider, it's effectively locked in, dependent on that provider.
Google does not directly make money from Android, which is free of charge, but owners of Android phones are effectively locked in to using Google services.
Cameron told the FSA: "To hedge, you were effectively locking in a loss that might never occur..
Investigators also asked whether Google was effectively locking in customers by making it hard to export or transfer text and images to competing services.
More than 120 properties cannot be sold because they are effectively locked in an insurance subsidiary.
The issue is that ice sheets melt quite slowly, but because carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for a long time, the eventual melting and associated sea level rise are effectively locked in.
The two countries are effectively locked in an embrace: China buys U.S. debt and the U.S. buys China's goods.
It is effectively locked in place, in a fixed position, above Earth – its geostationary orbit means that it spins at the same speed that the planet rotates.
In events generally lasting only a weekend, the diplomats and techies, as well as entrepreneurs, journalists and NGO workers, are effectively locked in a room until they make something that can ameliorate one of these problems.
The phosphomimetic form was effectively locked in a slower endocytic state, while the phospho-deficient form was faster across all stimuli.
