this is stepping into the territory of punishing legit end-users for the nefarious actions of pirates.
i Agree, no user replaceable battery is why I refuse to use mac. By mac I mean Iphone, Ipod , Macbooks, basically any thing mac. But lets be honest do i care about this ? Absolutely not. Sony refuses to release any thing but a psp, a power cable and a screen protector. Ive still not bought into the whole "buy a cheaper built , lesser capable , poorly engineered slide game system" The rapid release of multiple gaming systems with out the release of the other things for the psp is actually dumber then releasing the original and failing (honestly can we call the psp any thing but a failure ?)
Lets be honest with our selves , and sony.. The only reason any of us bought a psp was because we could hack it . If we wanted a feature filled , accesory rich , game rich portable console we would have bought a DS.
All sony did was skuttle their niche , that psp reminds me of a 9.99 prepaid slide phone.
Pretty sure I know what they did but will have to see the hardware to say for sure.