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Re:Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup by CaptainZapp on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:59AM (#20674568)
They specify that in the next paragraph explicitly that the phones are not bricked.

That very next paragraph, which you omit in your "quote".

Re:Rotten Apple: Right to Repair Roundup by Jgrubb on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:02AM (#20674590)
this is some next level irony. Read the sentence he wrote after the first one.