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

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by julianlam on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:28AM (#32355827)

> The chinese roborock is so much better and they get better after each release.

Are you buying multiple robots over time?

Christ, and here I am thinking $1000 CAD is a lot of money.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by theplumber on Saturday August 13, 2022 @10:51AM (#32450458)

I will keep the roborock for a while as it seems to be mature enough and checks all/most of the boxes. I sold the old robots for 59-60% of their value. The reasons for my upgrade path was: better nav, mopping and self cleaning.

Roborock does all 3, the 3rd is not perfect so I guess I will upgrade it once more (after 2 more iterations to make sure they fix properly)

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by rasz on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:18AM (#32357390)

Selling stuff you no longer use is a thing. Not everyone just throws stuff out, or donates to goodwill.

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