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Yeah, but after the rootkit fiasco, would you really want to?
Its a real shame the handset market is completely fucked and void of creativity
Are you talking about the scandal from 20 years ago, or something new?
Oh right, 20 years ago 👴
The old one, for sure
The scandal from 20 years ago, instigated if I recall correctly by a CD manufacturer ran by BMG (that Sony had a 50% stake in)? Sony-BMG hasn't existed in almost 2 decades dude.
Additionally, Sony Mobile is pretty open source friendly. Despite them being a tiny player in the smartphone market, they've contributed more to AOSP than any corporation outside of Google. They allow bootloader unlocks, they do prompt releases of kernel source code, and they even release bootable AOSP ROMS for their devices.
I won't certainly excuse the rootkit scandal that Sony was semi involved in, but it's crazy that people still clutch pearls about it 20 years later, while simultaneously happily signing into Steam and downloading games with kernel-level anticheat.
I didn't know about their AOSP contributions, cheers!
Agree on the kernel anti cheat, but those games always seemed unsatisfying, personally
I agree with anti cheat in video games. 100% spyware designed as video games. I always install games like that on my PlayStation(lol)
However, the united states government did the Alabama Syphilis Experiment (that they like to refer to as the town it was in, Tuskegee so you think it was some far off place when you look at the name) and I straight up wouldn't ever trust their ass again either. (Shit, MK Ultra, Agent Orange the verified list goes on and on)
Different situation for sure, but same energy. The lack of caring and lack of any repercussions cause these types of things to happen over and over again.
Sony definitely knew what was going on during that shit. They were pissed that you'd burn your friends CD and get to sell copies of it at school and shit.
And yes I do use a PlayStation only as a anti cheat gaming device and would never put any information into it I wouldn't want 800+ companies to know about. They get hacked all the fucking time so I have a card that doesn't even work as the payment method listed and just use gift cards.
Because I don't trust them all the way. And that rootkit bullshit will always be why. You make it sound like they didn't know. No sir, check out the wiki and all the bullshit covering up of it they tried to do.
A good chunk of the target market didn't yet know what their own fingers were for 20 years ago, if they were alive at all. I don't think that scandal has anything to do with their current market position.