Not that we like to toot our own horns all that often around here, but this one was just so sweet, we couldn't resist.
"Imagine this. You're standing in line at Starbucks and you hear the new Bob Dylan album playing over the commanding bark of the barista and the throaty whine of foaming milk. You decide that you want to buy the whole Dylan album on the spot. You pull out your mobile phone and the free Wi-Fi gateway provided by Starbucks greets you and asks if you'd like to purchase the album. You browse the online music store with a few clicks and buy the songs." – Wired News, "IPhone: Calling the Future," 1/12/07
"The Starbucks deal also a huge deal with apple as well. 50,000 Starbucks. You walk into a store, hear a song, a little icon appears on the iPod or iPhone. Like the song? Click on it, it tells you what the song is and you can buy it wirelessly. Cool stuff." – CNBC's Jim Goldman in an interview with Steve Jobs, 9/5/2007
Except of course that Apple made it even easier than we predicted...
Photo: Jon Snyder for Wired News
