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We are not even talking Amazon levels of inventory. A store has what, 10k, 20k items for sale? The entire store inventory prices could fit into <1MB of memory (without pictures).

Yeah, but you can shave a couple of pounds off the device cost by using a shitbox CPU with almost no RAM or flash!

It also means that the embedded developers can't start writing web frameworks into the devices, so they might actually ship this decade.

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