Microsoft clearly learned from their Xbox and Xbox 360 mistakes, leading to unhacked (?) Xbox One and Xbox Series X consoles: https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
However there have been some efforts last year or two to break the security. I remember reading about some exploit some time ago that would work from the original Xbox One to the current Series X devices though it relied on some program on the store that it was removed. However (supposedly, i do not own an Xbox One) the files were archived and one is still able to modify and compile the program (so it wont be caught by whatever automation MS has), use dev mode to put it on the store or device, then use that to apply the exploit.
I expect the Xbox One (and later) to be cracked open pretty much as soon as Microsoft abandons the whole thing as recently their interest in Xbox seems to be waning.
Imagine that. The computer you bought and own can run the code you want. Wild.
Now what's Apple's excuse?
> removed a large incentive for trying
I'm not entirely buying this, there's a big difference between running any code you want and the Xbox dev mode. If I look at jailbroken consoles of the past, people do way more stuff on them than what you can do on an Xbox with dev mode, like implementing various ways of self hosting and playing a huge library of pirated/backup games off local network storage, which Xbox dev mode can't do.
So I don't think incentive is gone, just that the barrier is too high for your common hackers in their homelabs. I'm sure private companies with six figure side channel analysis equipment and unlimited hours can crack them no problem but there's nothing to gain from that.
And in practice there isn't that much of an incentive for pirated games on Xbox One and later either since nowadays pretty much all of the games there are also available on PC where piracy is much easier.
Same with Android - from 2008 to ~2018 I was rooting and putting custom ROMs on my phone before I'd even got it home. These days I rarely bother because the functionality that I required is finally provided out-of-the-box.
It's no longer my phone If I can't decide what gets installed and what shouldn't
It is possible to reject the update. Just disable automatic updates of the Google App in the Play Store. You could even return to Google Assistant by reverting Google App to an older version.
What is really needed is being able to choose what updates to install, and more generally, being able to get rid of all the crapware that uploads everything you do on your device to your corporate overlords. Not just particular "apps", but the operating system itself.
The fact that most people in 2025 simply accept carrying around 24/7 a device with GPS, microphone, camera and wireless network connection, which they cannot control or even know what it does at all, is dystopian.
Imagine if this was the norm with PCs back in the 1990s. Linux would never have existed, since there would have been no way to replace the pre-installed Microsoft OS with something else.
Switch 1 all models are jailbreakable regardless of the system software but that’s because the the HW bug in the Tegra SoC