News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Amazon’s Roomba deal is about mapping your home by ch4s3 on Monday August 08, 2022 @02:14PM (#32388998)
Well sure, once you have a little computer and suite of sensors on the thing there are a lot of incentives to add crap onto it because the marginal costs are so low. Imagine you a PM or mid level exec at Robot Vacuums Inc and you want to advance your career and get a nice bonus. If you can push to get some cool sounding new feature onto the new model you might get promoted or a nice bonus. It probably won't improve sales and the customers don't want that feature but it doesn't hurt sales either so its easy to see how these things prliferate.

There are no comments on this comment yet.