An interesting experiment: if you have the chance of going to one those decades-old stores using text based interfaces, ask the employees about which systems th

An interesting experiment: if you have the chance of going to one those decades-old stores using text based interfaces, ask the employees about which systems they like most -- the old-school ones or the new desktop or web based ones. I invariably get votes for the first. And the reasons are basically always the same: they are fast and just work. It feels like the entire user interface field is creeping.