Starbucks Now Giving Away Free Apps

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Starbucks has been giving away individual songs for years now, all it takes is picking up that little card or hitting their WiFi connection, and you’ll soon grab a single from an artist you’ve never heard of, and in two days you’ll completely forget the song until it turns up completely out of place in your iTunes library. Well, now href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20092682-248/starbucks-serves-up-free-iphone-apps/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=News-Apple">they’ve branched out into apps!

Just like with music, when you pick up your coffee at a Starbucks, you now might see a “pick of the week” card, but with an app icon on it instead.

The first app up for grabs is Shazam Encore, href="http://appshopper.com/music/shazam-encore">which goes for $5.99 — a much better deal than the usual $0.99 song bargain.

We don’t know if this will be permanent, a replacement to the music program, will run concurrently, or alternate. Just keep your eyes peeled at your local Starbucks!