maybe if they offered it to people who don't own kindles...

Best Buy is hardly a local seller, they just have a local presence

add that to the sales tax additions in Indiana, and I have been shopping around again, a lot.

(yes, I know I should be paying use tax anyway)

I guess the part where the AC states "but honestly even if I were paying for the normal 7-10 day shipping it'd come out to more than $100 a year"
No, shipping is free if you go over $35, and it's easy to create a list of stuff you need that can be the "filler" item that puts you over.
If you can wait 7-10 days then it's not such an emergency.

When I can place a single order and get each item in its own huge box with lots of padding and empty space, maybe they can work on that too

They already have free shipping at the $35 order mark, so... no.

Why do they need a level of protection?
Price and customer service are protection enough.

The so called apple interface was not much different to the palm interface

I've used my own internal DNS caching servers that also allow me to define specific addresses for specific hosts, for example, when the PS4 was announced the Sony Dash servers were all blocked due to some stupidity on Sony's side moving the resolution address to some DDOS blocking service. The old host/IP was working just fine, so setup my own definition and voila!

The likely cause is they are underpowered for the number of users who use them.

If you create an account they don't do the redirects

I use my own modem and my own router on Comcast, what's this about them forcing you to use their router?

I stopped using comcast DNS servers years ago, and have avoided many an "outage".
I remember several large DNS outages on comcast that I was completely unaware of for hours or days, until some mention came up.
I have been using OpenDNS mostly, but I fall back to the google DNS servers if something there flubs up

        208.67.222.222
        208.67.220.220

Remember these numbers

Do they speak English or French in Kannada?

The real problem is they can't find qualified people to work the hours they want them to work for a paltry income.