Colin Angle

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Hard Fork · Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song · 19 Dec 2025 podcast

Yeah, we called it Scuba.

And, you know, we built it.

It worked great, but the customer didn't go for it.

It was never going to work as an independent product, but it was going to work

as an incremental feature, and we reacted late and we took some damage and had to do some rugged hustling to go catch up.

So, you know, I deserve arrows for mopping.

I believe that the LiDAR people are still wrong, and I just wish we had moved faster and had a longer runway before that, because that led to a great place.

Well, that's pretty easy.

We got to a point where, for very good and understandable reasons, the market pressures and the competition led to an economic model where iRobot was finding itself pressured to innovate.

And iRobot was a proxy for the United States because we were the only public company doing consumer robotics.

And so that if you were a fan of having consumer robotics being an industry where America could claim leadership, you needed iRobot to continue to be able to invest like big dogs and create innovations

that was going to give consumers the choice that they were asking for.

And so the challenge was the acquisition seemed to become all about Amazon and not at all about consumer preference.

leadership in the consumer robot industry and doing what the European Commission and the FTC are charged with doing is defending the worst abuses of monopoly.

I mean, at the time, iRobot's market share in Europe was 12% and declining.

The market leader

in Europe was a company that had been in the marketplace for three years.

That's kind of the definition of a vibrant, dynamic marketplace.

How do you even create an argument that says there are monopolistic forces, antitrust forces that are at play here?

I mean, it was hanging around 50%.

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