Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Inhibit on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:27AM (#32355813)

Thanks for the link, that looks like it'll fit the bill whenever I scrounge up a vacuum.

Although I think trying to convince vendors they want less data seems a little naive. More likely they'll lock out work like this entirely to make sure the free floor maps of your house (and schedule, and pet presence, and...) keep coming.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by smoldesu on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:33PM (#32362744)

> More likely they'll lock out work like this entirely to make sure the free floor maps of your house (and schedule, and pet presence, and...) keep coming.

If your Roomba is rooted, then can't you disable OTA updates to prevent them from doing this?

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by Inhibit on Monday August 08, 2022 @08:03PM (#32392606)

I mean for future products. I'm not sure they'd care enough to patch up previous hardware. Just my personal opinion based on hardware manufacturers in general though.

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