I was addressing the “waiting to acquire signal” part, not the “removing from a bag” part which I imagine to be fast

Your phone does not need an internet connection to tap to pay, in the same way your credit cards do not need an internet connection to tap to pay

That $60 game costs them $20 to sell on steam. So not that different than paying $20 to manufacture a cartridge really.

lol that’s almost 7 years? Insane they lasted that long to begin with

yeah same, I don’t understand why people need DNS. Every place I’ve ever worked at that used DNS had an outage, and nobody could get into anything

Fair point, will keep that in mind. For anyone else allergic to clicking Reddit links, here’s the blog the author also posted the content to:

https://singlelunch.com/the-bad-economics-of-wtfhappenedin1971

Would you like me to buy a domain for $10/yr and copy and paste it onto there for you, would that make it seem more legitimate somehow?

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/16igh9t/the_bad_economics_of_wtfhappenedin1971/