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By giving users explicit root access to their own phones, it's no longer appropriate to call it "jailbreaking", as the user is free to modify the code from the get go. [Emphasis added]

That's the point, isn't it? If you jailbreak an iPhone, it's you against evil Apple, which tries to stop you from tinkering with their mega-secret-full-of-IP-and-trade-secrets device that you think you own. Now s/Apple/Sony/. Doesn't sound very pleasing, does it? If, however, Sony gives you the tools to root your Android phone, it's "those good guys from Sony" that let you "modify the code from the get go" as you say.

Edited 2011-04-14 20:08 UTC

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