He's mentioned more than once that this software BRICKS the device. Whensomething is bricked, that means you might as well treat it like the stone kind for all the use you're going to get out of it from then on.
In the last message I added (render it unoperable) for the ones who don't know the slang :)
It's dead, pushing up daisies, it's run down the curtain to the Choir Invisible. IT'S BRICKED.
Man, I LOLed with this "pushing up daisies" :D