“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.
Can you order a latte through the wi-fi store?
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.
with whipped cream?
Wow, just wow.
Can’t wait till this is everywhere! The future looks fun…
MW: “growth”–I definitely need to buy more AAPL!
Can you use the Starbucks wifi ONLY for the iTunes store, or will it let you browse the web as well?
I hear Krispy Kreme and the Zune are going to do something like this………
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.
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?
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.
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/
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.
Are the songs overpriced and have a tip jar sitting next to them?
And can I get a hint of Madagascar cinnamon in that?