Colin Angle

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113 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 19 Dec

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

No, and the market share, unfortunately for us at the time, was going down.

Well, there was multiple healthy competitors that were seeing their market share going up.

Again, very difficult to say, okay, this is a monopolistic position, right?

it would be impossible for me to believe that anything was missed.

I mean, iRobot spent tremendous amounts of its own resources and Amazon spent many, many times what iRobot spent over the course of 18 months doing our best to make incredibly clear

the facts and circumstances regarding the acquisition.

There was nothing unsaid and there was no, gee golly, I wish we had asked that question, but we didn't.

So why did it get blocked?

It wasn't ignorance.

You know, I think that we, and to my knowledge, continue to have incredibly rigorous privacy and security.

In fact, images never leave the Roomba.

You know, we defend it in depth, meaning that all of that use of cameras was all done on the edge, on the robots.

No image ever left the robot unless you gave explicit permission to the exact image that we showed you that we were going to share.

all opt in and iRobot adheres to the highest level of cyber and security.

We were the first consumer product company to ever meet the requirements of sort of the gold standard in data security.

I have no logical answer to that question.

I do not believe there is any economic rationale which would say that the FTC or the European Commission had any evidence that the consumer was going to be negatively harmed

by the acquisition of iRobot by Amazon.

I believe that passionately.

The consumer only lost.

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