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by alexklarjr 1245 days ago
Xbone is not hacked because nobody care about essentially a boring pc without any memorable games. It will remain in history as another Microsoft marketing disaster. One day it will eventually and silently destroyed to be emulated like all ancient arcades and microcomputer games protections. Every protection can and will be broken. Regarding unsuccessful money grab, Idea that Microsoft minds forsaw that people will want to upgrade their boxes with cheap generic parts and that must be punished is indeed new, no car manufacturers never did anything like that since 90s.
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> Xbone is not hacked because nobody care about essentially a boring pc without any memorable games.

No, it's because MS gave them the keys right out of the gate with Dev Mode.

The keys couldn't unlock the GPU door though (I mean, dev mode apps couldn't use the graphics api). And iirc ram was limited. To me that allows for some incentive to root/jailbreak the device.
Anyway mission successful