I’m in New Jersey on business and happened to notice an LCD in the Starbucks I was in this morning. It was showing the current song playing, which reminded me about the whole iTunes/Starbucks thing.

For those who don’t read links, it’s a system that allows you to view on your iPhone the music selection in Starbucks stores. It shows you what’s currently playing, what played recently, top performers, etc. You can preview the music and even buy it right there on your iPhone.

Problem is — it’s only supposed to be in San Francisco and NYC right now. But I figured I’d try it anyway and turned on my wireless and fired up iTunes. It worked. And it was nice. I bought a Bob Dylan song. I truly love this device.

These people just impress me. It’s hard to stay mad at them — especially when they’re opening up the iPhone via a true SDK in February of 2008.

Why is it that it consistently takes me like thirty (30) seconds to access Apple’s iTunes Music Store? A while back I was getting in like instantly, but now it’s like I’m loading the next level of a game from the 90s.

Perhaps it’s my machine; I am only running a dual-core 2.0 Ghz Intel with 2GB of memory. Or maybe my bandwidth? I’m admitedly limping along at around 8Mb/second.

What exactly is the problem here? I’m starting to get a bit pissed about it. I don’t see how I can be getting this sort of delay on top of the line hardware and sick bandwidth. Oh, and it does it all night long, too. It’s not just during peak hours.

Anyone have any ideas?