Within days of the downgrade of 2.0 to 1.5 being released, Sony has announced another update. As a deliberate counter to the possibility of running homebrewed software on the PSP, this new update is specifically for plugging the programming holes that allow the downgrading procedure.
Sony says that this is to prevent unintended use of the equipment and that running homebrewed software on the PSP invalidates one's warranty.
And I say SO WHAT SONY!!!
Consider: once one purchases a system, especially at the price that this nice, hefty lil' hunk of hardware with a battery life worse than my truck with the lights left on while I go in to get another set of batteries for my t.v. remotes, they have the right to do whatever the please with that piece of hardware, so long as it does not result in illegal activities. Certainly this is not activity intended by Sony and should in fact invalidate the warranty. I can accept that, and ultimately I think that anyone who wants to run this risk by using homemade software should accept it.
But really, getting this... well, almost juvenile and pugilistic about it... does not seem to show you guys as being the unworried, monolithic, corporate powerhouse that you percieve yourselves as. There are so many possibilities for squeezing so much more functionality out of such a versatile machine, why work hard to shut down these avenues of ingenuity that could result in more PSP units being sold? It seems like an almost smarter business standpoint to claim to be trying close these holes and really just leave them open than getting almost violent about it.
I could guarantee beyond the shadow of any doubt that once something like the PSP could be shown to have as many practical applications as entertainment uses, I'm sure that many more units would be sold. Heck, you go as far as to throw in a battery that will last longer than an asthmatic smoking marathon-runner and you'd have the perfect hand-held machine.
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