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It does, but a "good" password manager is the cost of a Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes accounts combined times infinity.

1Password is probably my favorite app/suite of apps ever. And I willingly shelled out for them. But most people balk at paying $.99 to remove advertising in mobile games, so I don't see this catching on.

(Plus sync, plus backups, plus...)

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> a "good" password manager is the cost of a Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Pandora, Spotify, and iTunes accounts combined times infinity.

It can be, but it doesn't have to be. There's perfectly good password managers[0] which are free and open source. The problem in this case is getting people who aren't technically literate to use them.

[0] http://www.passwordstore.org

May I humbly suggest Keepass (0) and its many incarnations for various platforms? It's free as in beer and speech and seems to work pretty well.

(0) http://keepass.info

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