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by jeffbee 13 days ago
Without minimizing the impact, we should not blow it out of proportion, either. It sounds like every existing installed device continues to work. "Bricked" is used too expansively here.
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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
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.

“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
It doesn’t seem like anyone knows whether or not it is, in fact, transient.