Nice try. I've never heard an iPhone owner complain about the price or quality of the product. They manage to make 50% profit and their customers still think the iPhone is worth the price they paid for it. This is not the case with the telcos.

This is how capitalism should work.

Amen! Remember that cockup called Apple? Those hippies spent so much time on their oh-so-great "UI" and "design" that they ran the company into the ground. Fools! When they entered the portable music player business they thought they could do better than the established super-companies. That really made me laugh. And when they tried to build a phone from scratch! Ha, they were years behind successful companies like Sony-Ericsson and Nokia and still insisted on design and UI before features. Everyone who knows anything about business, knows that features come before design. Do-oh! Good thing they are not around anymore. Serves them well.

I just got a part in one of these: http://www.atecaircraft.eu/en/planes/faeta/technical-details/

It consumes around 14 liters of lead free fuel per hour when cruising at 200 km/hour. This (around 14 km/liter) is almost as good as most economical cars on the motorway, but with an extra 90 km/hour on top.

When throttling back to 150 km/hour it consumes 7-8 liters per hour, putting it at around 20 km/liter, still at very high speeds compared to a ground vehicle.

Takeoff consumption is of course higher but can hardly be measured, as it only takes a minute or two on a high power setting.

I'm not saying it is practical or that it is able to replace a car (it is not), but the fuel economy is way better than most cars - especially when travel times can be cut by 65%, assuming you have airports near your origin and destination.