The cost of the technology will get cheaper as it becomes more commonplace. When airbags first came out, how many were only found in the higher-end vehicles? Does anyone remember how expensive desktop computers were 20 years ago? What about cell phones - now they give them away.
Generally, I agree with you. However, cell phones have started to take over for desktop computers. The new iPhone is $1000, and other phones are still extremely expensive on their own. Only specific ones are "given away", and those are tied to a pricey contract and are old-ish technology. Or, you can "rent to own" your phone, which is what many companies do now. Break the phone, and you're still obligated to pay monthly AND the cost of the phone, even though you don't have a phone.
As new phones come out, old ones become obsolete as companies refuse to allow older technology to work with newer operating systems. They even go as far as to say that they will no longer support that equipment.
To be able to say, "fine, just add it to my monthly payment" is a luxury that many people don't have. Similarly, with respect to
@smoke665 's comment on "subscription ownership", not many people can say, "fine, I'll pay extra each month for a car". They'd rather just pay outright for any car and use it until it breaks. Having, and being able to pay for, a monthly subscription is a luxury.
Buenas Dias Coffee Hosers. What a fine wonderful morning. The sun is out (
@Leo: Why isn't 'sun' capitalized as it is a proper name? Gary has to find a style book. Gary guesses that sun/Sun is both a proper name and a noun. Sorta like John/john ... as in, John is in the john.) But the sun is out can also be the Sun is out. A little help here Leo.)
'Sun' is not a proper noun. A word is simply a code that we all agree refers to a particular object. A name is what we use when we want to distinguish between different individuals of the same object. So, 'human' is the symbolic set of sounds/letters that refer to us hairless apes. Then 'Gary' is the symbolic set of sounds/letters to distinguish you from another hairless ape.
The word 'sun' refers to a giant fireball in the sky. However, it doesn't have an official name - not the way that planets have a name. One reason that it doesn't have a name is because it doesn't really need one. This planet and its inhabitants have only one sun that concerns us - which is why it is always referred to using the definite article "the" - so we don't need to distinguish it from other suns. Same thing with the moon. "The sun" and "the moon" always refer to
our sun and moon. We do use names for other stars, though, because there are a ton of stars in the sky and how will we know which one will guide us to the north, or make up Orion's belt?
Apparently the International Astronomical Union recommends using a capital letter for Sun and Moon, basically saying that the regular noun should also become its official name. As for the non-astronomers, AP style (which governs the style of a hell of a lot of writing) still requires lowercase:
Does our sun have a name? | EarthSky.org
In addition, aren't the Sun, Moon, and Earth the only astronomical bodies (in this Solar System) not named after gods/etc: sonne/sunne, luna, terra, respectively?
But, other people do, and these idiots are the ones that can cause you and I to have accidents. 
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