"Install Other OS" Feature Removed From the PS3

Hann1bal writes "The next system software update for the PlayStation 3 system will be released on April 1, 2010 (JST), and will disable the 'Install Other OS' feature that was available on the PS3 systems prior to the current slimmer models, launched in September 2009. This feature enabled users to install an operating system, but due to security concerns, Sony Computer Entertainment will remove the functionality through the 3.21 system software update." Updated 3:49 GMT by timothy: An anonymous reader writes "This comes as something of a surprise. Particularly because only a month ago Sony Computer Entertainment management seemed committed to the continued support of the Other OS option on the PS3."

Re:False Advertising?

[Anonymous Coward]

Have you ever seen Sony do a good PR move?

Sony's unique business model

[straponego]

Most tech products improve during their life cycle. Not Sony's. Emulation, Linux... every iteration removes one more feature. By the end of the year, they hope to have removed sound from the PS3, and a year from now the PS3 Omega will do nothing at all.

Re:Sony's unique business model

[Anonymous Coward]

Eventually, someone will use a PS3 to break a window and commit robbery, and Sony will just start selling the idea of a PS3, until ideas become dangerous.

Re:what are the security concerns?

[Trepidity]

Ah, that makes sense--- so it's Sony's security they're worried about, rather than, as the press release implies, the security of Playstation owners.

Re:False Advertising?

[Anonymous Coward]

In retrospect, lying about the hardware capabilities of every home console they've ever released was probably a good PR move.

Re:Sorry kids

[Khyber]

"It doesn't run linux anymore."

Want to bet? I PAID FOR FUCKING OTHEROS - You take it from me and I WILL SUE YOUR ASS FOR THEFT OF SERVICES.

Cowardly Sony

[Khyber]

They took down most of the options on their 'Contact Us' page. You can't e-mail, or anything.

BUT they were stupid enough to leave the phone numbers on the site so feel free to clog their phones with calls expressing your displeasure over their violation of your property rights.

Re:Sorry kids

[Khyber]

My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?

Re:Sorry kids

[ClownPenis]

My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?

Dear felon, Unless you are also rwven, WTF are you doing even responding to me? I clearly "QUOTED" the comment I was replying to. That comment didn't belong to you. You are attacking my junk unprovoked.

Re:Sorry kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Somehow I don't think you're being funny, yet your comment is modded that way.

Re:Sorry kids

[AnEducatedNegro]

you know what i hate the most when i'm driving? when i use my turn signal to indicate i'm merging and the fucker in the next lane speeds up and doesn't let me in. you know what else i hate the most when i'm driving? fuckers who try to merge into my lane in front of me, so i speed up to block them. fuckers.

aEN

Re:Cell is a dead end

[mangu]

The question now is "Where can I buy these ARM-based desktop computers and how much are they?"

I would give an arm and a leg for an ARM desktop computer.

Re:Bummer ... (1st

[wisdom_brewing]

1st of april release? Doesnt that seem a bit... Foolish?

Re:Bummer ... (1st

[Vanderhoth]

You may never post of ./ again. You obviously have too high an IQ to be here. Personally I feel your gift would be better served if you applied yourself to solving world hunger... or the DRM crisis which ever you like.

/whisper DRM, DRM, DRM

Re:Sorry kids

[cthellis]

Gotta love it when Anonymous Cowards bitch about Anonymous Cowards being cowardly, anonymously.