Starbucks Deal Brewed with AT&T has Hints of Apple

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I'm not an oenophile, but I do like wine. I've never mastered the vocabulary of oaky, brawny, tannic, and so forth. But I do know a whiff of fruit when I smell it. The recent announcement that Starbucks would switch its in-store Wi-Fi provider from long-time partner T-Mobile to AT&T had a strong smell of Apple about it.

In fact, I think the putative 3G iPhone plays a part here as well, and that we'll see the 3G iPhone rolled out as part of a larger play that involves downloading movies in Starbucks over AT&T's new network. That puts the 3G iPhone launch between March and June of 2008.

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