[apendleton]

But in either case you need to acquire and mount a physical doodad to your house (or vehicle or office or whatever), right? Entering a credit card number again seems comparatively inconsequential in either case.

[count]

AWS Downlink between regions for higher cost but lower latency global xfer? It might not all be cloud->office, but maybe intra-cloud.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Entering a credit card number again seems comparatively inconsequential in either case

For an individual, probably. For an enterprise, skipping new vendor procurement is a material advantage. I don't think it's a decisive one. But it's an advantage nonetheless.