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Why is the blood on Amazon's hands and not the EU? Or uhh, the iRobot CEO for leading the company to a position where it had to be acquired or shrink massively

• mushufasa 3y ago
  The company's been around for 34(!) years. I can only imagine how burnt out that founder must be at this point -- decades of being on the bleeding edge of commercializing new technologies with so many misses along with hits, and a last decade where global competition headwinds make consumer robotics competition heavier than ever from China.
• foofie 3y ago
  > Why is the blood on Amazon's hands and not the EU? What does the EU have to do with anything? If a company is faced with a scenario of either it's taken over by another company or it dies, having to comply with anticompetitive regulation is the least of the company's problems. Keep in mind that the company you're depicting as a poor victim is the dominant market leader with around half of the whole market share.
  • throwaway2990 3y ago
    You haven’t explained why it’s not the EUs fault. They constantly stick their nose in everything and people get on their knees to the EU blindly believing it’s doing a good thing. The EU is a failure, without America the EU would have been absorbed by Russia and China by now. The EU hasn’t prevented anything bad from happening. Just causes more headaches.
    • croes 3y ago
      No one gets absorbed if he has nuclear weapons.