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

If you click the most expensive model and then click max/fast mode, the same task can easily cost 10 or 20x of the cheaper models

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

A used n3ds xl costs close to a switch 2 these days lol

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you can’t replace batteries on most modern portable computing devices these days.