Comments on: Senator Kohl looked into text messaging price gouging by cell phone carriers http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/07/senator-kohl-looked-into-text-messaging-gouging-by-cell-phonce-carriers/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:30:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ken http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2009/01/07/senator-kohl-looked-into-text-messaging-gouging-by-cell-phonce-carriers/comment-page-1/#comment-155088 Ken Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:25:01 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/?p=11249#comment-155088 If it was cost prohibitive, you wouldn't be writing this article, and I wouldn't be reading this. If the cost of texting was so out of whack, it wouldn't be an issue because there would be no market for it. What will limit growth is the absolutely stupid practice of government deciding the allowable profit private industries can make on nonessential product. If you feel overcharged, don't use the product and the price will follow. It's not air, water or food. Apple is making high profits on the merchandise it sells. Does that mean we should find out the cost of manufacturing an iPhone and sue Apple because of it? Every other manufacturer of computers seems to be doing just fine with 15% margins. It's an outrage. If you want R&D to stop, just keep punishing the people who take the initial risks and limit the potential rewards to do so. How many dead ends and wasted resources did it take for the current tech to become viable? If it was cost prohibitive, you wouldn’t be writing this article, and I wouldn’t be reading this. If the cost of texting was so out of whack, it wouldn’t be an issue because there would be no market for it.

What will limit growth is the absolutely stupid practice of government deciding the allowable profit private industries can make on nonessential product. If you feel overcharged, don’t use the product and the price will follow.
It’s not air, water or food.

Apple is making high profits on the merchandise it sells. Does that mean we should find out the cost of manufacturing an iPhone and sue Apple because of it? Every other manufacturer of computers seems to be doing just fine with 15% margins. It’s an outrage.

If you want R&D to stop, just keep punishing the people who take the initial risks and limit the potential rewards to do so. How many dead ends and wasted resources did it take for the current tech to become viable?

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