Code Signing is a highly undesirable way of getting “Consumer lock-in” because a manufacture can sign with a key that only has a life of say one year (which is actually an industry recomendation for PKCerts, so gives a “plausable excuse”). You won’t be able to install the drive...
Whilst the ability to threaten to take it off the table acts as leverage, to actually do so means the leverage to go and is not at all the act of a “rational player” or for that matter a “random player” because it’s a very major loose-loose for both ends of the pipeline. Th...