Starbucks No Longer On Apple’s Website, What Does This Mean?

The Starbucks page on Apple.com has disappeared driving speculation about the “lucrative” deal being terminated, or in a “transitional” phase. While this wouldn’t affect Apple too adversely, seeing as how the deal didn’t garner much attention to begin with, the impact on Starbucks could be greater. Engadget points out that the Starbucks page on Apple’s website is mysteriously “stone-cold gone, redirecting to the standard iTunes 8 stuff.â€� Many of you might not have noticed, and we get that. But fresh off of Starbucks’ huge corporate cutback, many could argue that the coffee giant might be trying to free themselves of their commitment to rolling out an iTunes WiFi Music Store integration across its entire cookie-cutter chain. According to Apple’s press release dated September 5th, 2007, Apple and Starbucks were creating “an exclusive partnership that lets customers wirelessly browse, search for, preview, buy and downloa...