• Openopenopenopen@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Actually doing her job by looking out for the citizens of this country instead of the corporations.

    Fuck this article. How does this journalist breath with amazons dick in their mouth the whole time? The regulators fault, not the company…

    Amazon, with its deep pockets, could have helped turn things around. Instead, regulators consigned the company to die a slow and painful death.

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    I’m with the article here.

    iRobot staying alive would be better than it dying from a financial death spiral. After all, who did all their competition get funded by?

    Chinese tech giants (like Xiamoi for Roborock), or as OEMs for other huge companies.

    Mergers and acquisitions aren’t always bad for the consumer, if it keeps options alive. Even with the obvious conflict of interests on Amazon, which it mentions, it seems pretty clear they overestimated iRobot, and consolidated the market as a consequence.