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> There are really only two ways TC is used in practice in today's economy:

Isn't that exactly the case, because the idea of using TC in every PC produced a huge backlash?

>>funcDr+(OP)
No, 'fraid not. There was no backlash except amongst a tiny subset of ideologically motivated developers who aren't making the decisions in these companies anyway. See how the big cloud providers all have TC efforts without fuss. Smartphones implement a much less open form of TC too again, devs don't care or welcome it (less piracy), users don't care or welcome it (see how HN threads fill up with praise for Apple's walled garden when it gets discussed). Linux supports all this tech just fine as well.

The reasons it hasn't taken off in desktop PCs are rather complicated and mostly due to patchy hardware support for the use cases that most matter there. It's much harder to implement in a diverse hardware ecosystem because for devs to rely on a new hardware feature that isn't just performance requires a very wide installed base. Intel and AMD never agreed on the right way to do it, and getting device vendors on board was too difficult outside vertically integrated ecosystems like consoles.