[rainman74]

Perfect - thanks for your feedback.

That means. We were blocked - but "by accident" - and additionally all applications with "ko" in name additionally.

Btw. just for brainstorming: Which popular apps do you have in mind that have "ko" in their PACKAGE_ID ? It would be evil to think, that they block entire "ko" "by accident" - but mainly hitting only kodi - as the rest no one installs ... but as we don't think evil ... that did not happen, right? :-)

So then: Dear Sony-Folks. Don't assume something is a kernel object, just cause it has "ko" somewhere in its PACKAGE_ID, imagine you had tried to load such a module (especially one with kodi's size) ...

try to install:
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/tree-men-g...-download/
com.treemengames.pako2
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/kobo-books...-download/
com.kobobooks.android
https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/telekom-de...-download/
de.telekom.android.dslhilfe     

 Which one of them is popular and is normally installed on TVs? :-) - you know this was a rethoric question - if you want to block kodi, but don't want to make it obvious - and are very evil, you would exactly match every "ko" in PACKAGE_ID - and afterwards say: ouhhh what an accident.

But: Don't assume evil. There was nothing in the past that Sony did evil to their customers. Therefore don't assume evil.

Hint: Sarcasm is hidden in this post.   

 I was just looking for apps that have a "ko" in the PACKAGE ID to test the installation process. These have nothing to do with anything else. They are also not Android TV optimized apps.

BTW:
I don't think Sony really wanted to deliberately block Kodi, because then they would have openly admitted it and thought about a communication strategy beforehand (then they would also have blocked KODI and not just KO).
But at the moment even the Sony PRs were surprised and didn't know about an alleged blocking and officially excluded it!