Are you sure it's the American subsidiary of 7-Eleven that partnered with them, and not the Japanese one or potentially stores in Korea owned by the holding company?

they do at least have a contract with Via, now.
www.arlingtontx.gov/City-Service...

city.ridewithvia.com/arlington

Apparently Iniu had a recall a week or so ago, too? My sister tried to buy me a charger and Amazon cancelled the order saying they got recalled.

It's a real pity "Passion - Sources" didn't get as widely heard as "Passion."

oh yeah, and a recent Microsft update broke the Windows recovery environment, too, if you have to reboot into it to troubleshoot or recover a computer.

www.tomshardware.com/software/win...

Does that actually make some purely imported trucks cheaper than the domestically produced ones assembled from parts with multiple border crossings?

Who makes the cheap hardware that enables these people to get and stay connected? Whose software runs on the devices that are affordable to these people?

Who actually has been most successful so far, with the idea of the "computer for the rest of us?"

They rely on those devices for their connection to the rest of the world; for weather updates, for disaster alerts, for news about local and global politics, and for talking with distant family. In many countries they do their banking and much of their daily retail transactions with them, as well.