Fresh off an extensive corporate
decaffeination downsizing and a scaling back of its foray into music sales, it's a fair question to ask: just how ironclad is Starbucks' commitment to rolling out
iTunes WiFi Music Store integration across its entire chain? We just happened to notice that the Starbucks page on Apple's site is now stone-cold gone, redirecting to the standard iTunes 8 stuff. You might say "no big deal, Apple's just playing down an agreement that's now been in place for a full year," but there's some other weirdness, too -- the company's
iTunes WiFi Music Store at Starbucks FAQ, for example, still references the dead link. The partnership was kinda ill-conceived to begin with; getting access to the store meant hooking up to AT&T WiFi, which you wouldn't normally have configured unless you actually had an AT&T WiFi account. We haven't heard any official word here that the deal is in danger, but really, would anyone be welling up if it fell apart?
posted October 8th 2008 11:10AM
You never had to be a paying WiFi customer as was said here, http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/apple-and-starbucks-itunes-wifi-integration-hands-on/ :It's all done behind the paywall. And the AT&T wifi is basically free now.
TIP OF THE DAY: Forget about the Starbucks coffee. Save that $3.00 when you get home connect to your wifi buy 3 song, while downloading brew your own coffee. Believe me it's worth it!
I don't know about you, but does that second iPhone there (laying down) look like the screen was really badly Photoshopped?
Someone needs to learn how to use the 'warp' tool.
All Starbucks wifi has the ATT logo but it actually comes from a company named Wayport that hosts it. Anytime your wifi doesn't work call their support line and tell them to give you a free connection due to the lacking service. Their customer service reps are horrid, and just read off a script. Also expect them to say "Our support line are open 24 hours." somewhere at the end of the call.
It means that your laptop will adopt an out of scale shape so when you try to close it, it won't actually close because the screen is much larger than the keyboard part.
d'oh