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Bricking refers to making the device a brick, as in it doesn’t work anymore. At all. You don’t “brick” features.
Just based on the Kindle my kid had that you had to pay to stop it being an ad platform, I can’t fathom the incentive to buy anything hardware wise in the Amazon space. You buy a thing and it’s still sitting there being a portable billboard because ‘fuck you we can’.
It’s like a drug. I don’t understand why ads are so enticing to mega corps. Why burn dollars worth of real customers and brand clout to chase pennys worth of hypothetical eyeball time?
Because the shareholders want a quick return on their investment, so short term profit
Planned obsolescence.
Shitty fucking business model, Bezos.
