List of products bricked by discontinuation

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A list of products bricked by discontinuation.

List of products

Product or line	Company	Release date	End date	Reasoning
Bosch Spexor	Bosch	2019	2023 (sales) 2025 (support)	Low demand in combination with high operational and app development costs
Sandisk Wireless Flash Drives	Sandisk	2015	18 Mar 2021	"...as an effort to retire legacy apps and migrate users to newer products, services, and apps."
Telekom Entertain media receivers	German Telekom	2011	2019	The operating system required access to Telekom servers to be able to boot. When the service was discontinued, its users could no longer access their locally stored recordings. The recordings were stored in a proprietary format and there was no way to copy or move them to external media.