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If you walk into a BestBuy and purchase a new one today, it arrives pre-bricked. That seems to meet the definition just fine

• jeffbee 4mo ago
  That's not what bricked means. Bricked is a one-way trip to permanent non-function. For example, overwriting the firmware with firmware that can't boot and also can't update again. The events in the article are a simple, transient backend malfunction.
  • swiftcoder 4mo ago
    “Bricked” is always a matter of perspective. Sure, the manufacturer can almost always unbrick a device, but the end user here cannot, because the manufacturer is not supplying the requisite tools
  • Marsymars 4mo ago
    It doesn’t seem like anyone knows whether or not it is, in fact, transient.