Apple Announces Starbucks Partnership
When you get near a Starbucks a fifth button will come up in the WiFi music store - you may have been in a Starbucks wondering what song is that playing? Now you can buy it with a tap of your finger.
The service will reportedly display the last 10 songs played in that Starbucks.According to Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz there will be free access to iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store via Starbucks' Wi-Fi.
From Schultz: Starbucks opens 7 stores per day, over 14,000 stores & 50 million customers a week. Currently there are 5,800 WiFi equipped stores in the U.S. with more coming every day. Starbucks hopes to offer WiFi access in all its stores by 2009.
No mention yet what happens when you're in range of 4 Starbucks or more at the same time.
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Is anyone else underwhelmed by this "feature"?
*raises hand*
And the best part is, although you can connect to the iTS for free, you still have to pay to surf the whole wide rest of the web at Starbucks.
Choose Caribou over Starsucks, people. Better coffee. Free Wi-Fi. Not bent on global domination.
-Clive
And yet another US-only feature... :mad:
Free wifi while at Starbucks would have made people happier :rolleyes:
And yet another US-only feature... :mad:
I thought starbucks' were global?
that's great and all but it still leaves the very big problem of getting and internet connection at the starbucks to download the music. if there was free wifi this would make more sense. but i guess since he's making at&t a bunch of money he doesn't mind making t-moblie a bunch too. At this point they seem like they would have been a better choice. And it seems they too will reap the benefits of the apple halo, probably more than at$t will
I was wondering the same thing. I thought for sure that the partnership he was going to announce was free Wi-Fi in all Starbucks stores. Now that would have been a get. There are soooooo many Starbucks coffee shops in the US and yet they are the only coffee shop I have ever been in that does NOT offer free Wi-Fi. What a bummer.
Frank
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