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There was no reason they couldn’t have sold a slightly less locked-down system to researchers at a higher price point —- Microsoft did exactly that with unsold
by ascagnel_ 7y ago
There was no reason they couldn’t have sold a slightly less locked-down system to researchers at a higher price point —- Microsoft did exactly that with unsold X360 Kinect units (and bundled in a USB adapter) for medical research.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoThe reason was cost. Have fun convincing management to allocate resources to develop and support another SKU tailored for researchers.
- mschuster91 7y agoSo what? Don't need much difference in hardware, it was only a firmware change.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoFirmware changes that relax the security of your hardware require a lot of red tape and raise much fear in management. SONY is infamous for going overboard on DRM.
- LaserToy 7y agoIt is time and not a priority. A lot of things can be done given unlimited time and resources, but unfortunately we don’t have that.
- DaiPlusPlus 7y agoYou don't need to - just license it out to a third-party systems integrator.
- zyztem 7y agoCell processor shipped for commercial installation in the IBM Blades QS20/QS21/QS22, which was based on Roadrunner supercomputer. Sony also demoed rack-mount with Cell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zego https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zego) but it is not clear that it was available in open market