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I hate these forced software updates with a passion!

If you're sure the software update was what killed your watch, you should demand nothing less than a new replacement watch, at no additional cost to you.

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The fact that a routine software update can fail and brick the device is a defect. This problem has been solved over a decade ago with BIOS updates even on entry-level boards by having 2 BIOSes on the board where the second one can be used to recover from if the first one is bricked, so there's really no excuse for this to be an issue nowadays.

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