Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home

Re:Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home by spandrew on Monday August 08, 2022 @01:06PM (#32388158)

It's better to have a DB of the relative size of people's homes than not. You could map it against a DB of their shopping habits. As someone who lives in a condo I can tell you too many furniture manufacturers design their furniture or appliances to be WAYYYY too big. So maybe product managers or portfolio managers can push for SKUs that work for more customer segments.

You may be right that the utility is limited. But in the surveillance economies of Google, Amazon and Facebook more data is better.

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Re:Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home by treis on Monday August 08, 2022 @01:23PM (#32388381)

Probably. But that doesn't mean that it was the driving force behind the acquisition. Amazon, Google & Apple are all in a battle for the home automation ecosystem. They each want use to use Siri/Alexa/Assistant to control your tv, doorbell, security cams, and more. This seems like another product to add to that ecosystem.

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Re:Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home by mcphage on Monday August 08, 2022 @01:19PM (#32388337)

> It's better to have a DB of the relative size of people's homes than not.

Of course, but is it better to have a DB of the relative size of peoples’ homes—or $1.7 billion?

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