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   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/25/2025 3:41 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   The financial problems started quite a few years ago.  Amazon tried to   
   buy IRobot a few years ago and Biden's government kept that from happening.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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