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Peter · Oct 2, 2004, 04:39 PM

http://www.apple.com/uk/retail/jobs/

In birmingham, nice.

willed · Oct 2, 2004, 05:01 PM

Well spotted! The Bullring is a great place for it, really cool design, good image. There's already a pretty good Mac department in the Selfridges there, where I got my iPod.

MindFad · Oct 2, 2004, 05:13 PM

Congrats on the limey fruit!

Parky · Oct 2, 2004, 05:33 PM

Please Please Please - Manchester next!

Ian

drive-thru · Oct 2, 2004, 05:47 PM

Saw that earlier, I was surprised, thought they wold have the London store open for a while before planning any others.
Anyone know when the London opening is, other than before Christmas?

Parky · Oct 2, 2004, 05:52 PM

Originally posted by drive-thru:
Saw that earlier, I was surprised, thought they wold have the London store open for a while before planning any others.
Anyone know when the London opening is, other than before Christmas?

London opens on the 20th November, same weekend as the London Mac Show.

Ian

drive-thru · Oct 2, 2004, 05:59 PM

Originally posted by Parky:
London opens on the 20th November, same weekend as the London Mac Show.

Ian

Thanks.

Hopefully I'll be around for it.

Peter · Oct 3, 2004, 05:24 AM

Originally posted by Parky:
Please Please Please - Manchester next!

Ian

that actually seems like the logical next step, hrmm...

Spheric Harlot · Oct 3, 2004, 05:43 AM

Hamburg.

Munich.

Berlin.

in that order.

Angus_D · Oct 3, 2004, 06:37 AM

Originally posted by Parky:
Please Please Please - Manchester next!

If you read ifo Apple Store you'll see that they're rumoured to be looking for retail space there.

theolein · Oct 3, 2004, 09:15 AM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Hamburg.

Munich.

Berlin.

in that order.

Today London, tomorrow the world!

I really wish they'd open one here though. The Swiss Mac stores tend to be uniformly craptastic, with long delays, high prices, lazy and ignorant staff.

TETENAL · Oct 3, 2004, 09:22 AM

Originally posted by Spheric Harlot:
Hamburg.

Munich.

Berlin.

in that order.

Munich?!

Those arrogant bavarians deserve no Apple store.

Frankfurt and Berlin should get one. Hamburger can go to London.

MilkmanDan · Oct 3, 2004, 10:14 AM

I'm glad to see apple putting store someplace else besides Japan and the US. The Apple store in Osaka is always full of people, and the 3,000 + person line I was in opening day was a nice indication that people abroad like Macs.

theolein · Oct 3, 2004, 10:56 AM

Originally posted by TETENAL:
Munich?!

Those arrogant bavarians deserve no Apple store.

Frankfurt and Berlin should get one. Hamburger can go to London.

Ideally, Apple would put stores in all major cities in all countries where there are enough people with cash to buy Macs.
That would mean:
About 6 in Australia
1 in South Africa
1 in NZ
1 in Singapore
1 in Hong Kong
5 in China
1 in Taiwan
1 in Dubai
1 in Tel Aviv
2 in India
3 in Italy
3 in France
4 in Germany
2 in Holland
2 in Switzerland
2 in Russia
1 in Austria
3 in Spain
4 in the UK
1 each in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland
maybe 1 each in Poland and the Czech Republic
about 4 in Canada
etc etc etc.

It would be really nice because an active infrastructure like that would most definitely push up Apple's acceptance worldwide. However, I'm pretty sure Apple does a lot of very detailed studies before opening an Apple store and only opens stores where they are very certain that it will pay off. I'm sure they are very mindful of the fact that an Apple store going bankrupt would be very bad PR for Apple in general as the clueless Windows using so called IT media would jump on it as they love to bash Apple.

Lancer409 · Oct 3, 2004, 12:47 PM

San Francisco is dying for a third store =P

just kidding obviously =)

*Ducks*

skalie · Oct 3, 2004, 01:08 PM

They turned the local Mac shop into an Apple store the other week.

Everything went white, more stock on display, wine and cheese, but still the same rip off merchant behind the counter....

....heard third hand that someone mentioned to him that he was trying to sell a secondhand Apple computer for more than it's cost new. His reply "I know".

My experience was when he quoted 300 euro for a repair that I since found out that Apple Dublin quoted less than half for.

Maybe the Apple Store concept is cool if done correctly, but I'm less than impressed myself.

Spotted a couple in Amsterdam last time I was there, wobble a little to the right after exitting central station ( as opposed to the more traditional left wobble) and one pretty close to the Waterlooplein.

drive-thru · Oct 3, 2004, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by Lancer409:
San Francisco is dying for a third store =P

You better not say that around any Canadians. At least not while you're within 'range'.

I think the no iTMS or Apple Stores for Canada is just an inside joke at Apple. I bet Steve Jobs keeps it that way just for kicks.

drive-thru · Oct 3, 2004, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by skalie:
They turned the local Mac shop into an Apple store the other week.

Everything went white, more stock on display, wine and cheese, but still the same rip off merchant behind the counter....

....heard third hand that someone mentioned to him that he was trying to sell a secondhand Apple computer for more than it's cost new. His reply "I know".

My experience was when he quoted 300 euro for a repair that I since found out that Apple Dublin quoted less than half for.

Maybe the Apple Store concept is cool if done correctly, but I'm less than impressed myself.

Spotted a couple in Amsterdam last time I was there, wobble a little to the right after exitting central station ( as opposed to the more traditional left wobble) and one pretty close to the Waterlooplein.

They're not official Apple stores though, right? Isn't it just the US and Japanese stores that are open at the moment?

skalie · Oct 3, 2004, 01:16 PM

Originally posted by drive-thru:
They're not official Apple stores though, right? Isn't it just the US and Japanese stores that are open at the moment?

Apple "centres", pardon my bad if I've misinterpretted the Euro version.

http://www.bossina.nl/centre/algemeen/algemeen.html

olePigeon · Oct 3, 2004, 01:45 PM

Originally posted by theolein:
3 in Italy

That's it?! Trust me, you'll want at least 10. Italy LOVES fashion. If it's hip, they have it. They're worse than Japan.

Drakino · Oct 3, 2004, 03:47 PM

I just wish Apple would do the Apple Centre store idea here in the US. I hope the day never comes when my local reseller closes down, but I could easially see it happen if Apple builds a store here. People won't look past the initial stock availability, and I'll loose the best Mac resource I have. Sure, the Apple Stores do some repairs, but nothing beats a local reseller who does everything in shop, and doesn't force me to ship the machine to some far off land to get fixed and be without for several days.

The store has lost so many sales due to things like not getting any iPod Mini units when the Apple stores saw plenty of them. They also still lack a display iMac G5, something I am sure every official Apple store has by now.

Who do you trust more? Some teenager who got hired by Apple to work their retail stores, or a local shop that opened in 1986 to sell Mac products and manages to keep employees there for years?