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by michaelmrose 1619 days ago
Retail provides a necessary service of managing a large inventory of vetted goods readily available under reasonable terms 5-10 minutes from most everywhere america.

There is no way I'm flying to South America for a banana or to Taiwan for a toaster. Their profit is payment for this service.

Your oem provided you a device which is perfectly capable via your ISP and your vendors infrastructure of arranging products and services. Your oem is only an essential part because they insist on it.

FedEx and ford could have in theory done the same or Dell and Verizon.