No? At the time of purchase, that was not the product as advertised.
At the time of puchase, OtherOS being a feature was a part of the PS3. You paid for a product that could provide that feature. At no point did you pay for a product that could provide a boomarang controller and if you purchased a later system with the reduced amount of USB ports, at no point did SONY state the system in particular that you were purchasing would have those four USB ports.
what about the initial spec sheets that were released? it said 4 USB ports on there. all of the pictures that i saw for the PS3 before I bought it had 4 USB ports.
and thats exactly what im getting at -- at no point was the boomerang controller available yet it was used to market the PS3 until it was "redesigned."
OtherOS was available until the PS3 was "redesigned" from a firmware perspective. You already HAD OtherOS. If you wanted to keep it you didn't have to update it -- that is the main reason why there is no claim here.
I never had the boomerang controller, they didnt take it away and give me something worse. I never had that to begin with. What I'm getting at is that its the same in the end -- something that was advertised that is "not available" anymore.
If I had bought a boomerang controller there is nothing that Sony could have done to take it away from me. If I had OtherOS and wanted to keep it, there was nothing Sony could have done to take it away from me. It was voluntarily updating your system firmware that removed the feature.
I thought legal precedents could only be made when an actual ruling was made, and not when a case was dismissed. Or am I just being swept up by the reactions here?
Yes, that is true, afaik.
It's unbelievable that people are actually defending Sony on this. What's the matter with you? I can't help but think if the product in question was anything other than a games console, it wouldn't generate such self-defeating 'logic'.
Think about it for a minute- you bought something and due to a mistake by the manufacturer, one of its capabilities was later hobbled. Regardless of whether you used or were even aware of the functionality, how on earth can this be good for you?
its a situational basis. There was nothing that Sony did to force you to remove the feature -- the act of updating, which YOU had to initiate, was the catalyst. If you didn't want to lose it, then don't upgrade... I don't see how it is so mind boggling for you to take this in context.