[Matt M @ Mar 8th 2006 5:45PM]

I think it's so costly because they want to suck every last dime out of you. If it were possible for companies to charge for water they would.... wait a second......

But seriously, a company has to cover overhead sure, but i think sometimes there's a limit, it makes companies lazy, R & D has really slowed down in the last few years for these sorts of technological marvals. It's like a cell phone, instead of making a kickass network, the company slaps a crappy camera on a phone and charges you another couple hundred dollars for it. I'd much rather pay the $300-400 for a phone every few years if that meant we had amazingly fast networks (like certain other countries). But we dont, and corportations are STILL charging us an arm and leg for it.