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US iRobot Close To Collapse As Chinese Brands Strip Share (www.channelnews.com.au)

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[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

"By not enforcing your patents"

You're absolutely right. From the article:

Years of stagnation and underinvestment have left its product lineup dated, while mass layoffs have gutted its development teams.

Patents would have held up this carcass for years and years, preventing anyone from actually innovating and improving on the original design, and keeping the prices bloated. Fuck patents.

It's like complaining that you got overtaken when you stopped running after the 100m line, when you're running a marathon.