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Gear Live reviews Apple’s iTunes Wi-Fi music store with Starbucks integration

Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - 09:04 AM EST

"As promised Apple and Starbucks started their rollout of the Starbucks WiFi Music Store in select cities. Gear Live is lucky enough to be in Seattle, the first city to get the special version of the iTunes Music Store in our Starbucks. The service allows laptops, iPhones, and the iPod Touch users to connect for free to the iTunes store while sipping lattes without having to pay for for a T-Mobile Hotspot account... Hopefully this kind of mini-store partnership won’t be limited to Starbucks and we will see many more partnerships in the near future. Having the feature available at concerts could be a huge win for Apple, music venues, and artists alike. Imagine seeing your favorite band perform a concert, and whipping out an iPhone to buy their albums or even songs from the live performance before heading home - the era of location-based e-commerce is close at hand," Sparky reports for Gear Live.

Full article with screenshots and photos here.

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Oct 02, 07 - 08:14 am Comment from: rdf-relay

Can you order a latte through the wi-fi store?

Oct 02, 07 - 08:28 am Comment from: Slevin

Tried it out today, works like a charm. it does however put an icon along the bottom of the iTunes Wi-Fi store directing you to whats on the speakers in Starbucks currently. Also while I did get todays free song Joker by Dylan, I didn’t see anyway to put that code in and dl it over the iTS from my iPhone.

Just go into starbucks, select their T-Mobile network and BAM! your there baby.

Oct 02, 07 - 08:30 am Comment from: ?what?

with whipped cream?

Oct 02, 07 - 08:32 am Comment from: Jake

Wow, just wow.
Can't wait till this is everywhere! The future looks fun...
MW: "growth"--I definitely need to buy more AAPL!

Oct 02, 07 - 09:17 am Comment from: Zephyr

Can you use the Starbucks wifi ONLY for the iTunes store, or will it let you browse the web as well?

Oct 02, 07 - 10:56 am Comment from: Eric

I hear Krispy Kreme and the Zune are going to do something like this.........

Oct 02, 07 - 11:09 am Comment from: The Social

Just to clarify - Of course one can just visit any coffee shop with WiFi and browse the iTunes music store, the only difference being the Starbucks content.

Oct 02, 07 - 11:21 am Comment from: viktor

Can you order 50,000 coffees like Steve Jobs did it during the iPhone introduction?
Who can be that girl that answered the Phone that glorious day?

Oct 02, 07 - 11:43 am Comment from: montex

Ok, I must be doing something wrong. I was just in a Starbucks in Bellevue (across lake Washington from Seattle), and it's one of the stores that had CDs all over the place with dozen listening stations. I opened my iPhone, connected to their wifi and... nada. I had expected to see some kind of screen saying I'm on the Starbucks iTunes or something, but... Looks like its not ready for prime time yet.

Oct 02, 07 - 12:08 pm Comment from: Woody

Montex, Starbucks is doing a phased roll-out of this, as apparently there is something they have to set up in each store. Major markets first, then smaller cities, and supposedly hitting all Starbucks by 2009. Sounds like your store hasn't gotten the upgrade yet, but I'm sure you will long before the one in my rural south Georgia town!

Official scoop here: http://www.apple.com/itunes/starbucks/

Oct 02, 07 - 04:28 pm Comment from: Christapher

I work at a Starbucks in Dallas and we are also giving away free itunes dl's every day. i also thought it was interesting that we started selling redemption codes to cds on itunes instead of actual cds.

Oct 03, 07 - 06:26 am Comment from: TowerTone

Are the songs overpriced and have a tip jar sitting next to them?
And can I get a hint of Madagascar cinnamon in that?

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