Yeah, this is San Francisco Luddite chic. Certainly, a business can do whatever it wants, and certainly the customers who like playing with the 53 year old coffee machine are welcome to go; but watch for the Internet to become yet another thing that our progessivists want to take away from us.
Yeah. If they can figure out a way to do it, they will. They HATE the fact that people can easily do things like review the text of a speech that a politician gave two years ago.
You could do that before the Internet, but it wasn’t easy. Not only that, it gives people a place to pool their expertise and resources to analyze things. Before the Internet, would anyone have caught CBS lying about Bush’s military service?
So, yeah. I agree with you. But from a business perspective, I understand this decision.