Gear Live reviews Starbucks on Wi-Fi iTunes

nice use of skitch there! :] ive just been given a copy, and love it veryvery much.

I tried at the first Starbucks on Pike Street today just passing by to see if it came up. It didn't.

I can't believe they didn't do the first store in Seattle, so maybe it was down during one of those times I tried (2pm)

I'd love to find out from someone who works at Starbucks how this all works and what equipment was installed for it. Would be pretty interesting.

Tried 4th and Seneca in Seattle (Store #6) and finally got the Starbucks icon and content. But it was up and down. The song I purchased couldn't complete and told me to use my personal computer.

Got back to my own network and still had the starbucks button. :-) But still couldn't complete the song download on the iPhone.

All in all, the Starbucks wifi experience at two different stores here gets an F.

Embarassingly enough for them, I also couldn't get to tmobile. I've got a tmobile hotspot account so I thought I'd try that to see if that worked better than "free". I couldn't even get the login panel to come up! So an F for tmobile as well.

The support from the iTunes Store staff on my Eddie Vedder content card fiasco gets an A for perkiness but an F for actually resolving my problem. They keep writing me back to let me know I've been able to redeem this Starbucks code or that Starbucks code (which of course I already knew) but so far they really don't seem to understand the issue is with Eddie...

of course you have to ask. they should only give them out to people that want them, not to every single customer. I am just bummed that you can't download the song of the day on the iPhone.

I could get to the WiFi store on my iPhone at the 8th St. Starbucks this morning, and the Starbucks button showed up, but that page wouldn't load. I also had to ask for a song of the day card, even though I bought a coffee.

Works on Long Island. I tried it in Miller Place worked great and got the free song card.

Worked great for me in Glen Cove, NY.
Got the Wi-Fi store up easy and fine, saw what was playing and purchased a song.
One of the first things they said at the cash was if I purchased music online or not... then gave me the free song card (Bob Dylan).
There's a LOT of iTunes content around the styore - they're really putting their back into it!
Also like the idea of buying a card for a specific album - so you still have a retail face, but you get the content online... sits right alongside physical media in the store.

I can't wait until Apple partners with other stores like Abercrombie and Fitch so I can download all THAT great music! :)

Worked great for me at 42nd and 8th ave. Although the iTunes WiFi icon was unchanged on the home screen, once you click on it, the Starbucks icon pops up as a fifth button along the bottom of the Wi-Fi store screen, next to the normal buttons. Seemed snappy and responsive.