Porcupine_I on 13 July 2011
| scottie said: @ All the people comparing this to OtherOS 1) The complaint about OtherOS removal was that it removed a feature for existing owners that people most strongly objected to, and this was why there could be class action lawsuits filed. If the source of that picture is representative of the whole, then consumers will be told about this before purchase, making it completely different. 2) It's not the removal of a feature. HD gaming as a feature still exists, and the ability to play on older tvs still exists. It's more akin to a price rise than the removal of a feature. 3) It has none of the "Do we really own our stuff any more or are we merely permitted to lease it" issue that the removal of OtherOS raised. 4) Broadly speaking, the removal of OtherOS impacted upon the tech savvy, early adopters, the linux crowd. Basically, those with the ability to hack and the desire to keep the feature. This crowd, for the most part, will already be using HDMI. The crowd effected by this will likely be those who know less about technology. Anyway, I don't think this is a particularly big deal, if true. Also, 40 gb bump in harddrive space, iirc? |
Consumers had been told before purchase of the new slim model that the Other OS Feature had been removed from the model.
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
