These sound like reasons for Apple not to do retail stores. :) In fact, I think Apple has lots of room to win in these areas. From TFA, think how much waste th

These sound like reasons for Apple not to do retail stores. :) In fact, I think Apple has lots of room to win in these areas. From TFA, think how much waste there is in cell implementations for legacy/interop-- not to mention carrier overhead-- that could be eliminated if Apple made every single device on the network? Apple is full-stack from today's perspective. What if tomorrow's "stack" includes the towers and the complete customer billing relationship? People might say this was an obvious step along the road to e-wallet phones. I agree this feels a little far fetched. But so did AAPL becoming the world's largest company, and switch to x86, before the fact... :)