I don't like the idea. But the price makes sense: (try to figure out how they decide this price) 1. Xcode is 4.2GB in size. 2. Bandwidth costs about $0.10/GB,

I don't like the idea. But the price makes sense: (try to figure out how they decide this price) 1. Xcode is 4.2GB in size. 2. Bandwidth costs about $0.10/GB, so that's $0.42 per download. 3. Every update requires re-downloading. 4. We'll update more than 10 times before Xcode 5 comes out. 5. So let's charge $4.99! (Of course they pay less than $0.10/GB for bandwidth at their scale. Don't panic about the exact number.)