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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by hintymad on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:11PM (#32358961)
What I don't understand is how iRobot, once an iconic innovator, could move so slow and innovate so little that Roborock, a company founded in 2014, could beat the shit out of iRobot.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by darthrupert on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:38AM (#32366825)
I think we have the answer now: They focused on getting acquired. That is never good for the consumer.
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