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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

Argh, if it's the same Starbucks song in every store than the sales are likely handled through the centralized iTunes store, which sucks.

I was hoping it'd actually be a store-based thing, where the system knows what song is playing and the files to sell are stored locally. The system could phone home to validate iTunes Store login credentials, and then sell whatever it has loaded locally.

Think how that could work as a standalone appliance. Apple could sell a "band on tour" box to bands where they could plug it in at a venue (electricity and network) and then anyone who had an iPod could go ahead and buy the band's album, or tour exclusives, directly at the show wirelessly.

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.

dude. you loathe your phone? remember what i'm still using? jesus fucking christ.

i dunno, though: part of me thinks, hmm, all-in-one phone-and-iPod? that's gonna get lost/dropped/nicked, and fuck me RIGHT off.

maybe i should buy two :)

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

It's also a portable movie player.

Jobs is really not handling this well:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118910651781519626.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

HI DERE, what's a feature-length movie though? about a gig? say i'm going on a long plane trip: you could bring three movies and still have 3 GIGS left over for music!

i'm sure it's just what you become used to. i haven't had a walkman since my minidisc gave up the ghost, so coming from the perspective of "which two or three albums should i bring with me today" 6 gigs seems positively decadent.

"which two or three albums should i bring with me today"

With humongous storage you don't need to make that decision every day. You just get up and go and listen to whatever you like on the way. It is decadent, but decadent is good.

Yeah, I've not got time to add iPod loading to my crowded morning schedule. I'm a busy executive!

It is nice to be out, get a song in your head and then realise you can scratch the itch right there and then.

(to be fair, Tracer is saying he's left the "which two or three albums should i bring with me today" decision behind with his minidisc)

i did, but that's my baseline for expectations - so 3 gigs for me seems pretty close to providing "whatever i want".

i also am possibly just more discerning than you.

my 4GBer seemed more than enough when I used it

Jobs is really not handling this well

As someone who knows that the standard Apple rule of thumb is that something newly introduced will be made cheaper and better some months down the line, I can't find myself being at all sympathetic to all these consumer complaints. If a lot of people complaining are talking about their loyalty to the brand for a long time, then THEY know that as well. Whiners.

getting rid of those 40 gigs of sebadoh b-sides was the most cost-effective decision i've made in years

I still don't get the point of the iTouch. It's just a touch-screen version fo a Nano, isn't it.

w/ bigger screen and wireless

the nano doesn't have a wireless web browser!

register likes it more than the iphone - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/07/apple_ipod_touch_coup/

As someone who knows that the standard Apple rule of thumb is that something newly introduced will be made cheaper and better some months down the line, I can't find myself being at all sympathetic to all these consumer complaints. If a lot of people complaining are talking about their loyalty to the brand for a long time, then THEY know that as well. Whiners.

-- Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 September 2007 12:55 (29 minutes ago) Link

I don't feel sorry for them either - I kind of think it was stupid and vain of people to need to buy the phone when it first came out. But I still think it looks pretty bad and lacking in confidence to drop the price so much so soon. And I think he's actually making things worse with the store credit, like "Hey, I know I fucked up, so here's a consolation prize."

I've been pretty amazed by the coverage of this - I maybe didn't expect a pric drop a couple of days ago, but certainly within a few weeks of now. Look at the amount the Razr dropped in price over its first year - I don't think we're going to see $99 iPhones in six months.

As I didn't feel I was entitled to anything back $100 of store credit seems like a good deal.