Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases but makes no promises.

Embodied says it will try to refund recent purchases but makes no promises.

  • Guamer [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    I feel sympathy for the kids. The parents should’ve known how bad a combination “tech startup” and “product that needs constant updates to function” is.

  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    God I fucking hate the abuse of the word “bricked” by tech journalists. You brick a piece of technology when you fuck it up so bad that it cannot be recovered - it becomes functionally a brick.

    They are not bricking this device, they are shutting down the cloud services it needs to function because they are going out of business.

      • graymess [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I agree. Accident or not, when a device is bricked it’s permanently fucked, functionally useless. The term suits it and should be what we call this practice unless there’s a harsher word to describe a company unplugging the necessary server that kills an otherwise useful, working device.