There should always be an option, how would you like to only be able to buy oem parts for your car.

There is always going to be a need for a motherboard to handle IO functions, why should be have to buy intel chipsets only or amd only regardless of how simple or complex the chipset.

Its simply greedy that these brands want to lock their platforms to themselves, at least intel seems to.

There's plenty of room for third party chipsets as there would be in x86 cpus if intel would license, Intel simply doesn't allow for room for anybody else to exist in its space then who's already there.

How things are not they are simply locking out anybody else, I mean really, what are they afraid of, they're simply squeezing out competition.