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I know it’s not gonna happen, but it would be great if Sony would develope their own phone OS from scratch again. In a parallel universe Sony is the third big OS developer next to Apple and Microsoft. Of all the smart phone manufacturers i found it always strange how Sony decided to go third party, and imagined them to be the most likely company to develope their own mobile OS.

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I dunno, Sony has never really been very good at software. Look at the PS4 OS — it actually repeatedly warns you not to unplug the machine without “powering down” from the software first. Imagine if your phone didn’t have a reliable filesystem layer.

Now, Nintendo... that phone would be cool.

The Nintendo switch could’ve /would’ve been an even better device with apps.

Maybe I don't know because I don't have a PS4, but aren't all operating systems like this? It's an optimization, holding some writes in RAM rather than immediately going to disk. The software needs to know you're powering off so that it can flush those first.

You can probably configure some OS's to disable this (so that if it looks idle you could pull the plug), but it seems like a fine choice for a PS4 that rarely needs to be powered off.

Many people have written off Sony for software as far back as the rootkit fiasco. I love Sony hardware, but I would not trust them with software ever again.

Pretty broad brush for what is a company with dozens of departments.

You are 100% correct. A single bad Apple using the Sony brand could spoil the whole bunch.

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