Those are licensed, not sold. This is one concern people have with Right to Repair - that the OEMs would just turn everything into a long term lease and you wouldn’t actually own your stuff any more. Then they can put whatever rules they want on it.
If software is a critical component of an item, and you don't have basic control over that software, then you already don't "own" that item regardless of what the legal title says!
Furthermore, if industry does dig their heels in and starts refusing to sell goods outright in favor of their retaining de jure ownership, then that is straight up anticompetitive and they should be prosecuted for it.
Right, but I don’t think that distinction is clear to most people.
The next step will be the software. Having hardware you can repair is great, but if you can’t own the software that can run ontop of it you have a dead brick.
