Thursday, September 6, 2007

Apple and Starbucks like PB and J

From IMDB

In what Starbucks founder and Chairman Howard Schultz described as a "transformation" of the marketplace for digital entertainment, thousands of recordings of music and movies will soon be able to be purchased and downloaded at nearly 6,000 Starbucks coffee shops via Apple's iTunes Music Store and eventually in all 14,000 Starbucks shops worldwide. Some analysts predicted that the deal between Apple and Starbucks could mark the end of brick-and-mortar music/video stores if not the CD and DVD themselves. During an Apple presentation in San Francisco to announce the release of new video-capable iPods, Schultz said, "It's rare a physical retailer can transform the marketplace. ... This is going to be a transformation." Analysts predicted that Starbucks will likely install small terabyte-size wireless servers in its shops, enabling customers to download a movie during the time they wait for their coffee instead of the several hours it often takes to do so over the Internet.

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