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I read the article in entirety and felt like the headline unnecessarily blamed Amazon. I would say the EC left Roomba with a huge mess to clean up, not Amazon.

• MBCook 3y ago
  I don’t think the headline is intended to mean “Amazon screwed over iRobot“ so much as “iRobot screwed by their mess since they can’t count on Amazon‘s as a bail out”. Which I think is a good point. But the headline does not do an effective job of getting that across. It really does make it sound like Amazon was actively causing the problem as opposed to re-revealing it. Maybe just shifting the order around would have been enough. “Roomba left with a huge mess now that Amazon merger is off”.
  • shiroiuma 3y ago
    How about "Roomba fails to get out of its huge mess because proposed Amazon merger failed".
    • MBCook 3y ago
      Yeah that’s perfectly clear. I don’t know if it’s longer than they would want. But that’s absolutely what the story here actually is.
• mekoka 3y ago
  Roomba left to clean up huge mess after Amazon deal falls through The pun holds even better.
• croes 3y ago
  The EU's objection is based on Amazon's previous behaviour of obstructing competitors on its platform. So who is to blame?