• Patch Lady – we’re looking at this patching wrong

    Posted on December 7, 2018 at 23:00 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    We got a new Roomba robot for home and like everything that has software these days, it needed an immediate update.  I had to laugh at the graphics they used to represent updating….

     

    So I had to laugh at the graphics — see patches are gifts!

    And unlike Windows updates and smaller hard drives, iRobot stomps on the patching “gifts” to make sure they fit.

    Perhaps Microsoft can take a page out of the iRobot playbook and convert our updates to gifts?

    Seriously we purchased a new iRobot Roomba because we replaced our family room area rug with a dark rug and found out the hard way of an implementation bug – the older models have edge sensors that would sense the black rug as an “edge” and would stop cleaning.  We found the only way to ‘trick it’ was to cover up the edge sensors with a combination of tape and tin foil (I’m not kidding).  So recently iRobot has come out with a new i7 model and sure enough it will clean a black colored carpet without covering up the sensors.

    Now I am reviewing privacy issues, end user license agreements etc,  and obviously now have to worry about updating and patching the device.  But obviously, I accept the risk because I want the convenience of having my rug cleaned automatically.

     

     

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