2. There are plenty of stores selling Apple products, in which case Apple is not the seller. And Apple sells many products made by other companies in its stores and on its website, in which case Apple is the seller.

3. If you buy an Apple product, you get a product made by a large and well- known company. But if you go into any department store, you'll find thousands and thousands of products made by companies that you don't know, that you have never heard of, that you wouldn't know how to contact, where you don't know what reputation they have, where you cannot know whether the company still exists when you want them to fix a problem, and the company may be located far away from where you are which makes it very hard to take them to court if you have to. For that reason, it makes a lot more sense if the store is responsible for the product quality. Especially since the sales contract is between you and the store, not between you and the manufacturer.

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