Filed under: Multimedia, Apple
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 at this time 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 at this time 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 start 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 in this place that the deal is in danger, but really, would anyone be welling up if it fell apart?
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Tags: Amp, Big Apple, Decaffeination, Downsizing, Foray, Itunes, Multimedia, Music Sales, Music Store, Nbsp, Partnership, Starbucks, Weirdness, Wifi