You know what? Just because you, I and a hundred other nerds do care does not mean that the millions who buy fucking phones from their operator do, and no matter of sanctimonious whining on slashdot by you will change that.

Are you at all aware you can buy FULL PS3 games on the Playstation store for a while now? No? Oh well, it doesn't matter, have a misguided opinion anyway, this is slashdot anyway.

Spare me the "freedom" bullshit. It is irrelevant for most people, full stop.

Steam are getting away with it, and have been getting away with it since 2003.

"People who deal with Sony"? God damn, I didn't know that buying the best-selling current-generation console (In EU anyway) were making a political statement? Give it a rest, I know it's /. and circlejerking is pretty much what people are supposed to do, but seriously... live in the real world for a second there.

Man, people want to buy a god damn phone, and they'll buy one they like. They don't care or want to care about "open bootloaders" because for the vast majority of people it gives them ZERO advantage. They don't want to load up the latest CM10.1_KANG_super_duper_deodexed_perfect_nobuggs_OC1500 ROM, they want their phones to look pretty, ring when they're supposed to and that's it. You think you can "educate" people, best of luck to you, but you just want to interest people to something they do not want to care about, full stop. For what it's worth, I too own and love my GNexus. It's not a phone for everyone.

You obviously don't own a PS3. There's a HUGE library of games that cost $20 (Platinum). Playstation Plus let's you have about 20 A-list games for about $35 discounted per year. Every year they have at least two times when everything is deeply discounted (again a-list games costing about $10 to $20 for a digital download). And that's not even taking into account the HUGE discounts you can find in places like amazon when buying games online 3-4 months after the game comes out. Also, GNU/Linux? What the hell, are we back to 1995? Give it a god damn break.

It doesn't matter if "physical media" has more features. It's still a digital product if you activate it on steam, and you cannot resell it, return it, or anything like that.

You could have saved yourself a lot of time by just having typed "$ony are the evilzor" and get it done with.

The vast majority of people do not give a shit whether their "bootloader" is "unlocked". They want something that works and they don't even know or care about even rooting the phone.

No one would give a shit. People buy phones because they like the software / hardware or they trust the brand. They don't care if it's "open" or "free".

Which is pretty much what the article is about, right?

If it's a steam game, you cannot resell it. You can sell your physical disk all you want but whoever buys it won't be able to install it.

Yes, and your behaviour is *clearly* everyone's behaviour.

So basically Sony want to do pretty much what Steam already does on the PC and people are saying "it doesn't work". Well guess what. It *does* work and chances are you're already using a service where you simply cannot resell games. As for the rest of the arguments, I heard them before. In 2003, when Steam went online. The world, amazingly did not end.