iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead(nytimes.com)
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iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/roomba-obit/
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We have a recent model Roborock and it was hands-down the best unboxing and setup experience I've had of any tech product.
Hopefully not the one with cameras that’s sending imagery of your home up to the cloud.
Q5 with Lidar only. The floor plan mapping is impressive.
Bought a Roborock and expected it to be ”meh” at cleaning but it does vaccum better than I would (and can do it more often). Had no problems with it so far.
Roombas have been left behind by the competition a decade ago. I avoid uploading data to China by never setting my Dreames and Roborocks up.
I was talking with friends who use action cameras heavily. GoPro seem to have suffered the same fate - defacto to second class, as they’ve just failed to innovate.
We got sick of Roomba failures and switched to a Eufy, it's just absurdly better.
A few years ago, I bought a Eufy robot vacuum. Less than a year later, one of the wheels stopped working: a known issue caused by faulty gears. When I reached out to Eufy, they told me the product had been discontinued, no parts were available, and they wouldn’t honor the warranty. So be careful with them.