Al Sutton

"... and I've been trying to get someone to provide details of where access to Recovery Mode and replacement OS installation was promised by OUYA, and so far no-one has." - Al Sutton

"If you're talking about the CyanogenMod Cease and Desist, they got exactly what they wanted, CyanogenMod no longer distributes the GApps as part of the distribution. The PR effect was pretty much what I'd expect they wanted; The message went out that they will come after you if you start distributing their apps on a wide scale without a license." - Al Sutton

"Their current choices about what legal action to take does not make it legal, and does not mean that they will not change their position in the future." - Al Sutton

"> Access to Google apps (and possibly the Google play store). Which is against Googles' terms of use, breaches their copyright, and is therefore technically illegal in most countries." - Al Sutton

"I've asked for references to where a commitment to this functionality being available has been made in an official OUYA comment or release. There are a number of people who've made assumptions about what they expected from the OUYA which OUYA don't appear to have ever committed to, and who are now pointing the finger at OUYA for not delivering something that wasn't promised in the first place. I know some people see me taking an inflexible stance on it (and that's been phrased in various ways in the private messages I've been sent in various places), but I'm trying to get to the source of where someone has seen a promise that this would be delivered. I've not said that I haven't seen people asking for it, what I've said is that the number of requests I've seen is very very very small compared to the user-base and compared to other requests. I see more requests for some features in a week than I've seen requests for recovery mode access in six months, and when it comes to prioritising,..." - Al Sutton

"No it doesn't. Hardware hacks are hacks on the hardware, and don't *have* to include software components. I've seen people add peripherals using root access to remount the system filesystem as rw and copy in native libraries. That didn't require recovery mode or a new OS." - Al Sutton

"I'm not in CS, I'm in engineering. This posts are my own opinions and not OUYAs." - Al Sutton

"You get root level access and you can open it up and see all of the hardware (as iFixIt have done). So help me out here, which part of that says you'll be able to access recovery mode and replace the OS? I'm being serious here. I haven't seen every public statement made by OUYA, so if someone can show me where there's been a public commitment to allow you to replace the OS and/or access recovery mode then please send me the details." - Al Sutton

""Wow, this is where you decide to go with this? Now you're throwing your product into that arena when we all have tried so hard to separate you from them?" We're talking about a very specific piece of functionality here, this isn't a "which console is best" thread." - Al Sutton

"Here's my take; You're comparing apples to oranges. The Kickstarter title for the OUYA project was "OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console". Not a 'phone. Not a tablet. Not a new kind of Android device. A New Kind of Video Game Console. Compare the OUYA to other Video Game Consoles around when the project was launched; The PS3, The Xbox 360, The Wii. None of those give you root level access on the device out of the box. None of them let you write games on your PC and run them on the device you bought in the shop at no extra cost. None of them let you side-load applications from friends. So if you compare you games console to your 'phone and tablet, there will be features missing, but when you compare it to other Video Game Consoles then it's a very different picture." - Al Sutton

""You don't have your own opinions, you have the company's opinions.", to me is the kind of thing that things like Gattaca, Continuum, etc., are written about. Individuals can hold opinions separate from the company, and the idea that they should be restricted from expressing them is, to me, a pretty offensive one. I could create an account with a made-up name to try and hide the fact that it's me posting them, but I'd rather be honest about who is making the posts. I'm a believer in taking responsibility for what I post. If people don't like what I say then they should put up a reasoned counter argument why and I'll see if the figures back it up. If people want to hurl personal insults, then don't expect me to even read the posts, there's enough hate in the world as it is without wasting time reading posts from people who seem to think being offensive is the key to success." - Al Sutton

"Please don't try and pass my personal comments off as those of OUYA, they're not, as clearly stated in the text you've quoted; "My personal view (that's mine, not OUYAs).."" - Al Sutton

"If you spot specific games that are hanging around name and shame them on the ouya.tv forums. The version of Android on the OUYA has been created to be more aggressive in non-visible games, but if some are still causing an issue then it's time to talk to the devs." - Al Sutton

"Is it worth Google devoting resources to dealing with a minority of projects (the really complex ones) rather than improving the experience for the majority? Why not engage with the adt-dev google group and discuss it with the people writing the tools? Yes, the tools have problems, I don't think anyone doubts that, but your experience could have been used far more poductively by engaging with the existing tools dev community rather than firing off this post and publicising it around the net without discussing the issue with them first." - Al Sutton