In a shocking revelation, Simson Garfinkel points out that Starbucks is charging for wireless Internet access in its stores! Oh, the horror! He says:
Starbucks, the king of the $4 coffee, wanted me to pay for a service that should be too cheap to meter.
Well, duh. Consider the fact that Starbucks is a demonic corporate monster bent on world domination, and this probably won't be too surprising. Simson does make a few good points about the fact that for most of us, it's cheaper just to set up a WiFi access point and let people share it than it would be to set up an elaborate billing infrastructure.
Posted by Paul at August 02, 2002 10:03 AM