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Lauster on 06 July 2017
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Pemalite said:
Lauster said:

The Great Sony Hack : Not an anti-consumer move by Sony (but a lack of security on their part to not hash or crypt a password nonetheless), I think they would have liked to do without it. Futhermore, Sony offered games after this.

It was Anti-Consumer.

It was 100% Sony's fault that they were compromised. Consumers personal details were leaked. That is 100% on Sony.

Sony has its wrongs, I don't say otherwise but I think "anti-consumer" is not the good term because it's not an action desired or controlled by them, or else all companies are thus anti-consumers. Each of them can be (or is already) compromised.

Pemalite said:
Lauster said:

Removal of BC : Always sad to loose features, but BC is very dispensable and allowed in this case to lower the price of the PS3. Thus it's pros for consumer. 

Or. Sony could have kept a higher priced tiered console that retained the functionality at a hardware level.
Or. They could have actually made a decent software-based backwards compatability approach.

Excuses aren't a solution.

 

Maybe it could had been a 100% software-based BC (more than just the EE replaced with software for PAL version), but that was not the solution Sony chosen at this time. You said it yourself, they were pretty convinced by the success of their system ("too expensive for you ? Just get a second job !") and they had to react when they had to face reality. Maintain a top tier offer that already proved that it doesn't sell while you're bleeding money ? Well, good luck with that !
Your "if" and "could" aren't a solution too when you have to quickly react. But all of this is only conjectures, the most important for qualifying if it's anti-consumer or not is : What did consumers were expecting most ? a lower price or a feature 80%-90% of them have nothing to do ? hint : see the sales

Pemalite said:
Lauster said:

Removal of Linux : Thanks Geohot for this... but maybe he has rushed a removal that would have be done later in any case.

No. You can't blame Geohot. It was Sony's decision. It was removed by Sony's hand. Don't make excuses for Sony, that's not okay.

I don't make excuses for Sony, and as I said, maybe Sony would have removed this later without GeoHot action, but it's just a logical consequence for a company when someone boasts that he has found a solution to hack your system by this way.
When you know your arm is gangrened, you cut your arm (and Linux was more a small toe than an arm for the majority of consumers, and I'm still generous).