Apple's Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is AI Making Us Dumb?

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The New York Times

Technology

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In the A.I. era, does Apple need to get comfortable shipping less polished products?

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0:00.0	There's a lot of trouble over at Roomba.
0:02.9	The robot vacuum company?
0:04.3	The robot vacuum company.
0:05.7	What's going on?
0:06.2	And in fact, didn't they make the original Bruce Roos?
0:08.6	Yes.
0:09.1	Bruce Roos, your famous robot vacuum that you had to replace with Bruce Roos.
0:12.6	RIP, Bruce.
0:13.5	So I read recently, you know, Amazon wanted to buy the maker of the Roomba.
0:18.0	Yes. But then that was basically blocked by the Biden administration as part of their campaign to block all acquisitions.
0:24.9	Yes.
0:25.4	And so Roomba said this week, Kevin, that they may have to shut down.
0:29.3	Oh, no.
0:29.9	It could be curtains for the robot vacuum.
0:32.4	Oh, no.
0:33.2	That's horrible.
0:33.9	Will the Roombas that people have in their houses just stop working?
0:37.3	You know, that's the fear. Sometimes, you know, these companies go out of business and they do get bricked.
0:42.2	But the CEO put out a really interesting statement. He said, this really sucks.
0:48.8	Is that a vacuum joke?
0:49.7	That's a vacuum joke. Not a good one. That's a vacuum joke.
0:53.5	Yeah, I noticed that Roomba was falling on hard times because my robot vacuum joke. Not a good one. It was a vacuum joke. Yeah, I noticed that Rumba was falling on hard times because my robot vacuum just started
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