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I noticed this in Starbucks in Toronto in the past week. I haven't been there in years and wondered how they rid themselves of the laptop wielders, and noticed that there's no power outlets left. The couple that are, are the floor-mounted key-locked like those in big shopping malls for the maintenance and when they set up kiosks at christmas time.

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I think this is generally a good idea, but in the iPad/Kindle era, not sure how much of a problem battery life is going to be.

Its a lot less common to see someone set up shop for a full-blown workstation with their iPad. Sure, you can sit down and work for hours on an iPad (especially if you bring a separate keyboard) but I doubt many people would do this without some other circumstance that prevents them from bringing a laptop. I doubt that's going to change for a while.

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