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by aidenn0 179 days ago
If we look just at 2022, then allowing the Chinese to foreclose on iRobot vs Amazon buying it is basically just a question of who owns the name "Roomba"; there were zero companies making robot vacuums in the US, and the result is still zero companies doing so.
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That’s unhelpfully reductive: There are zero companies making smartphones in the US, too.