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If true, this is sabotage of the customers product, and must 100% be illegal in almost any country!!
But my guess is they are limiting this to countries that have absolute shit consumer protection.
Things are illegal only when enforced. Otherwise they're a suggestion at best.
That's part of how shitty the consumer protection really is.
But common for all, there needs to be complaints before the law is involved.
I haven't read the entire XDA thread but there are a few posts saying it's limited to ColorOS (Chinese version of android that everyone else gets as OxygenOS). Unable to verify.
If they don't reverse course, I'm sure it'll roll out globally eventually. This has to run afoul of EU's strong warranty laws right?
....oh? I thought every console used this kind of tech as well.
So are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.
Ooooh, okay, now I understand. I was referring to the way modern consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can't load older patches.
But yeah, the PS3 removed the ability to boot Linux which it was explicitly advertised to have and it was a huge thing at the time.
Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
It's an anti-piracy/homebrew feature. Realistically, nobody is using that for cheating.
No, this is done to ensure there's no competition when selling games. Why do you think console games are pricier than PC ones? On PC we still have some competition.
Anticheat should be handled by the games, not the console (unless the games are produced by the console manufacturer)