There've been plenty of attempts of companies to claim ownership of software that is only licensed and therefore cannot be transferred. There have also been plenty of decisions showing that this isn't possible except in specific cases. To make hardware incapable of running by somehow revoking a software license has never worked, nor is it anything that Apple has ever done. Microsoft has tried this time and time again with Windows licenses and has been shot down in pretty much every case that has actually gone to court.

My point is that the idea of software being non-tranferrable is not anything any reasonable company still tries to practice, nor is it something that Apple has ever attempted.