Editing Crippleware (section)

==Computer hardware==
This [[product differentiation]] strategy has also been used in hardware products:
* The [[Intel]] [[486SX]] which was a [[486DX]] with the [[floating-point unit|FPU]] removed or in early versions present but disabled.<ref name="hackers_dict">{{cite web|url=http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/jargonfile/jargon_file-152.html |title=Crippleware — a definition from The New Hacker's Dictionary |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090111094411/http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/jargonfile/jargon_file-152.html |archive-date=January 11, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Deneckere|first1=Raymond J.|last2=Preston McAfee|first2=R.|date=1996-06-01|title=Damaged Goods|journal=Journal of Economics & Management Strategy|volume=5|issue=2|pages=149–174|doi=10.1111/j.1430-9134.1996.00149.x|issn=1530-9134}}</ref>
* [[AMD]] disabled defective cores on their quad-core [[AMD Phenom|Phenom]] and [[Phenom II]] X4 processor dies to make cheaper triple-core Phenom and Phenom II X3 and dual-core X2 models without the expense of designing new chips. Quad-core dies with one or two faulty cores can be used as triple- or dual-core processors rather than being discarded, increasing yield.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/373185/amd-phenom-x3-triple-core-processors-are-crippled-quad-cores-in-disguise|title=AMD Phenom X3 Triple Core Processors Are Crippled Quad Cores in Disguise|author=matt buchanan|publisher=Gawker Media|work=Gizmodo|date=28 March 2008|access-date=9 September 2017|archive-date=16 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916102921/http://gizmodo.com/373185/amd-phenom-x3-triple-core-processors-are-crippled-quad-cores-in-disguise|url-status=live}}</ref> Some users have managed to "unlock" these crippled cores, when not faulty.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guru3d.com/news/phenom-ii-x3--enable-the-4th-core/|title=Phenom II X3 - Enable and unlock the 4th core|author=Hilbert Hagedoorn|work=Guru3D.com|access-date=2010-06-14|archive-date=2010-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100629123024/http://www.guru3d.com/news/phenom-ii-x3--enable-the-4th-core|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Casio]]'s [[fx-82]]ES scientific calculator uses the same [[Read-only memory|ROM]] as the fx-991ES (a model with enhanced functionality), and can be made to act as the latter by strategically cutting through the epoxy on the board, and tracing the exposed solder joints using a pencil. This is also the case with the fx-83ES and the fx-85ES.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=557455 | title=How to upgrade your fx-82es, fx-83es and fx-85es to a fx991es | access-date=2008-08-03 | archive-date=2008-06-13 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080613131116/http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=557455 | url-status=live }}</ref> 
* [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] announcing it would charge $4.99 in order to enable [[802.11n|Wi-Fi]] on some devices in 2007<ref>{{cite web|url=https://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/01/6637/|title=Will Apple charge you to enable hardware you've already paid for?|date=2007-01-16|access-date=2017-06-14|archive-date=2017-03-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312163830/https://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/01/6637/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/apple-holds-802-11n-capabilities-hostage/|title=Apple holds 802.11n capabilities hostage|author=Paul Miller|publisher=AOL|work=Engadget|access-date=2017-08-26|archive-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621012247/https://www.engadget.com/2007/01/15/apple-holds-802-11n-capabilities-hostage/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/want_80211n_in_/|title=Want 802.11n in your Mac to work? For you: only $4.99|author=Kevin C. Tofel|work=gigaom.com|date=2007-01-16|access-date=2013-12-25|archive-date=2013-12-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131225223843/http://gigaom.com/2007/01/16/want_80211n_in_/|url-status=live}}</ref> (fee later reduced to $1.99)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-apple-getting-ready-to-charge-for-802-11n-mac-enabling-software/|title=Is Apple getting ready to charge for 802.11n Mac enabling software?|work=ZDNet|access-date=2024-07-31}}</ref> and blaming it on [[Generally accepted accounting principles|GAAP]] compliance, even though their interpretation of the accounting rules as mandating a fee was contradicted by a former chief accountant of the [[Securities and Exchange Commission|SEC]] and by a member of the [[Financial Accounting Standards Board]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB116925153861582055|title=Apple Gets a Bruise by Blaming A $1.99 Fee on Accounting Rules|work=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=2017-03-13|archive-date=2018-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126161612/https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB116925153861582055|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Intel Upgrade Service]] (2010-2011), which allowed select types of processors to be upgraded via a software [[activation code]], has also been criticized in such terms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-charges-customers-50-to-unlock-cpu-features/|quote="this arbitrary software lock is odd in that Intel is offering to remove it for a fee. Basically it seems processors have become so powerful and so cheap, and the failure rates so low, that the only way that Intel can supply the low end demand is through artificially downgrading chips."|title=Facepalm of the Day: Intel charges customers $50 to unlock CPU features|website=[[ZDNet]]|access-date=2024-07-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://boingboing.net/2010/09/19/intel-drm-a-crippled.html|author=Cory Doctorow|author-link=Cory Doctorow|title=Intel + DRM: a crippled processor that you have to pay extra to unlock|date=18 September 2010|access-date=25 December 2013|archive-date=25 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110825134435/http://boingboing.net/2010/09/19/intel-drm-a-crippled.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Apple secretly slowed down older iPhones, in a controversy dubbed "[[batterygate]]". They settled a consumer fraud lawsuit in 2020 for 113 million dollars.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Allyn |first=Bobby |date=2020-11-18 |title=Apple Agrees To Pay $113 Million To Settle 'Batterygate' Case Over iPhone Slowdowns |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay-113-million-to-settle-batterygate-case-over-iphone-slowdowns |access-date=2022-11-08 |archive-date=2022-11-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108131011/https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay-113-million-to-settle-batterygate-case-over-iphone-slowdowns |url-status=live }}</ref>