Well, in fairness, it will stop working as a Spotify Car Thing, and Spotify itself has said you should "recycle it" (meaning throw it away and pretend it will b

Well, in fairness, it will stop working as a Spotify Car Thing, and Spotify itself has said you should "recycle it" (meaning throw it away and pretend it will be recycled). That may not mean "bricked" by a technical hacker's definition, but I think that's "bricked" by the definition of 98% of people who bought the thing.