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The title strongly implies the hardware is intentionally being bricked.

Being put out of commission by downed servers is still pretty terrible, but intentionally bricking the devices is a separate further step to me (and has been done by other companies).

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They could always have designed their product in a way that doesn't turn into a brick when the servers disappear.

Call it "negligent bricking"?

No, the proper term is "IoT-grade architecture".

Potato, potato.

The "S" in "IoT" stands for security.

I feel like selling a hardware device that depends on a cloud service you're bundling for free is intentionally bricking the devices. They are refusing to accept returns, and they're refusing to open the API or provide a firmware update that disconnects them from the cloud.

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