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   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   > On 12/25/2025 3:38 AM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   >> Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> Wow, Roomba just file bankruptcy.  “Roomba’s bankruptcy may wreck a lot   
   >>> more than one robot vacuum maker”   
   >>   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >>> Killed by the Chinese knockoffs. Probably from the same manufacturing line.   
   >>   
   >> Plus tariffs on imports from Vietnam.   
   >   
   > The tariffs just started this year, 2025.  The Chinese knockoffs started   
   > a decade ago.   
      
   IRobot's bancrupcy was in 2025, not a decade ago.   
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