New Apple Lust Objects

god save anyone who walks into a starbucks and is introduced to new music

Apple to unveil groundbreaking new marketing partnership that will revolutionize the music industry: get a free Beatles song with every 32 oz. Slurpee.

Does anyone know if there is an iPod that will allow to buy the new Holy Hail track with one click as soon as I enter Burritoville or Pies and Thighs?

what new Holy Hail track?

Hang on, I'm forgot that I'm pissed off at the cheek of $1 to make a ringtone.

Cuttler offered some operating statistics for Burritoville and said that his company has "gotten pretty serious about the music business as well," pointing to the eight Grammy awards Burritoville has won.

Also: no more white iPods.

PGRAMMYX

pretty sure the Touch will handle email via the web.

They did win the 2003 Golden Globe for lamp design

web shmeb, should be able to use the iphone's email client if it has wifi

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Oh please tell me that wasn't an intentional face.

does it do internet streaming audio through the wifi?

Having vented our "STARBUCKS?" spleen here, it's well worth it to read Maura's more positive take at Idolator.

They need to use Omarion to market the Touch.

On the contrary, I think this is a perfect chance for the Unwarranted High Fives to record a sellout song of the best kind.

it occurs to me that the 160G iPod has more storage space than my Desktop's HD.

will each Starbucks be broadcasting this, or do all the Starbucks across the country play the same song at the same time?

Starbucks has it's own satellite channel that broadcasts to all the stores.

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i agree w/maura that if you looks at the starbucks thing as a proof-of-concept it's very exciting; it's practically proto-william gibson type sh*t

But what's the betting that apple have some kind of exclusive deal with starbucks for this technology for x years?

if the thing came with a microphone (a la the iPhone) i don't see why something like shazam couldn't be linked up to some kind of itunes music store scriptlet

yes, i just used the word "scriptlet"; please send me to the glue factory someone

I'm wondering if I can trade in my free iPhone for a Touch...?

you can trade it to me for a touching moment of gratitude!

The Starbucks gimmick may be the start of something important too. [...] Starbucks can be first with this sort of application because it is already wired for Wi-Fi, and the music application is a natural. But of course your phone or other wireless device will start to ping you with information — wanted or otherwise — as you move through the commercial world. Vendors have been talking about wireless coupons, etc, for years, but here it starts.

Glasgow's Apple Store isn't getting the touchscreen iPods in till the 28th. What a load of rubbish. I wanted to play.

Has it got the new nanos or classics?

"new classic"

How presumptuous.

No fugly nanos yet. Either them or the classics on the 8th. Maybe both. I started drifting a bit. Only thing they've got just now is the new colours of shuffles (woo).

When I saw "either" and "maybe" I mean I can't remember what she said, other than 28th for the touchscreens.

Does the wireless on the touchscreens do anything other than let you buy songs at Starbucks?

internettt

So, to clarify, the iTouch is the Apple Crackberry?

no dedicated email client so, no

i guess you could always check webmail with it; might be better actually than having it constantly DINGing at you every time a new email comes thru

I check my webmail on my crappy old Sony Ericsson easily enough.

I don't think I need a touchscreen iPod, but I quite like the idea of pinching things.

in all sincerity, could you conceivably install slsk on this thing?

btw i lied about owning an iphone upthread
sorry guise

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Well that's the thing -- I dont want e-m✧✧✧@a✧✧.crackbe✧✧✧.n✧✧, I want my g-mail with minimal fuss and google (for bar arguments and road-trip trivia contests and directions for the times that the company gives us shitty mapquest directions).

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And I'm happy to carry a phone to use for... phoning...

we need a glasgow apple store FAP(od).

i'm gonna wait till i can fuck about with an iPhone and an iTouch, then decide between 'em. christ knows when we'll see the former here in the UK ... i'm guessing next year now.

I loathe my phone, so I'm set for an iPhone, which makes an iTouch a bit pointless really -- it's not got enough space to be much more use for cutting about than a nano, and everything else the iPhone will do.

iphones have dropped $200 already. im so tempted since my cellphone contract is up in nov. still, my sidekick still has a good 18 months on it. no use having both, i guess.

i will never understand how 6G of music is "not enough" for a portable music player

in any case, i figure once the bandwidth issues get sorted out you'll be able to grab songs from your home computer wirelessly anyway, so HD space won't be much of a factor

whats a good way to get out of a service contract without paying the early termination fee?

(what i mean is, when you're out and about, scrolling through your list of albums, you're just looking at an index of what's on your home machine, which then streams the song to you via IP)

xpost provide proof of address in another country - it worked for me! (nb: i actually did move to another country)

You used to be able to do this with iTunes sharing, except the record companies went nuts so now it only works on your local network

It took all of four phone calls and two minutes of Internet for my shiny new $299 iPhone to crash and require a hard reset. This does not bode well.

You can do this streaming already, at least over wifi (and I'm sure over 3G too). I imagine in a couple of years I'll have a 3G phone, a 2Tb (or so) hard drive at home and access to all my music whenever I'm in cellphone range.

....has anyone heard about those t-mobile phones that use VoIP when yr in range of Wifi?? pretty rad.

the nanos are SOOO teeny lovely. really want to see one up close