Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 3.0 – Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Did Amazon buy Roomba to keep Apple and Google from sniffing around? – And, for that matter, is Meta going VR to beat Apple to the punch? From Benedict Evans Newsletter No. 452: Amazon buys Rooomba: Amazon bought iRobot, maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaners, for about $1.7 billion. Amazon has been building a smart home business for quite a long time, …
