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Huntington Village’s Starbucks is in for a treat. It will be one of the first locations in the world to offer Apple’s new iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Anyone with an iPhone, iPod Touch or a laptop with iTunes can go in the store and shop at the store.

So now the question is, what is an iPhone, an iPod Touch, and the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, and why Long Island?

To learn more about the iPhone, see this previous post detailing the release in June 2007.

The iPod Touch is one of the newest iPods released by Apple. It fulfills the desires of many for a widescreen iPod, and the cool interface of the iPhone. Built on the same body structure of the iPhone, the iPod Touch is in many ways the iPhone- without the phone. It features Wi-Fi access, the Safari browser, and access to YouTube videos.

The iPod Touch comes in 8GB and 16GB models starting at $299. You can purchase them at your local Long Island Apple Store or other authorized resellers.

The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is Apple’s new wireless music store. The same songs available for purchase using iTunes can now be bought using the new Wi-Fi Store from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Although right now, it only offers music and not videos, games, or audio books like iTunes itself. After you purchased your songs, you can sync your device at home and transfer the songs to your computer or no additional cost.

The iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is not just another wireless music store, which Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T already offer. What makes it shine is Apple’s partnership with Starbucks. Eventually, each user will be able to walk into a Starbucks, see the last 10 songs played at that location, preview and purchase the recently played songs,

Now why Long Island? Apple decided to launch this program in a few select locations to see how it works. The first two regions are Seattle, Starbucks’s home city, and New York. One can assume that the New York region won because it has well over 500 locations within 50 miles of Manhattan. The Huntington Village Starbucks is one of the lucky ones to be entered in the program. Other regions to receive the new service in the near future include: San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

Here’s a few useful links to finding a Starbucks or Apple store in Long Island:

• CAFES IN LONG ISLAND, NY
• COFFEE SHOPS, COFFEE BARS, AND COFFEE HOUSES IN LONG ISLAND, NY
• COMPUTER STORES IN LONG ISLAND, NY
• SHOPPING MALLS: ROOSEVELT FIELD MALL, GARDEN CITY, NY

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