Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant’s takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

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    1 day ago

    Another company squandering their patents and market advantage. Reminds me of TiVo.

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      TiVo had such an excellent UI. DVRs became common, but all the ones I saw had such inferior interfaces. Such a shame.

      I bought and hacked a TiVo unit and used it for years in a place where the service wasn’t available. I miss that thing.

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      This. I know someone who used to work there. They wouldn’t enforce the patents in China to the point where you could drop in Roomba subassemblies in competitor robots and they would still work…