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Link: Apple Computer is planning to open a giant flagship store in London

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[jazzkids]

thats good news

[imbriumink]

Very very good news

[Trowaman]

Very very very good news

[bennyek]

very very very very good news

[Photorun]

'bout time.

They may not have iTunes music store, but they'll have an Apple store.

[Grimace]

very very very very very very good news.

[armchainmstenw]

interesting news.

[HexMonkey]

Originally posted by jazzkids
thats good news

Originally posted by imbriumink
Very very good news

Originally posted by Trowaman
Very very very good news

Originally posted by bennyek
very very very very good news

Originally posted by carletonmusic
very very very very very very good news.

Hate to spoil everyone's fun, but I think we get the picture

I guess it's above average news.

[rogozhin]

I would probably be more excited by this story of there were Apple Stores represented in the biggest metropolitan areas of the US first. It amazes me that 23 states do not have Apple Stores. Sure, it seems unlikely that a store in Juneau would have them beating down the doors, but certainly stores located somewhere in the swath of 'flyover states' that include Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama might do okay. It's difficult enough to convince someone to buy a Mac when they can't see them... Meanwhile, Best Buys and Walmarts sprout like mushrooms, selling substandard Wintel boxes to potential Apple costumers. But hey, best of luck in throwing up stores in the far corners of the world; I guess it looks more exotic to say you have a store in London or Tokyo than it does to say you have a store in Wichita or Billings.

[Sedulous]

London is a far corner of the world?

[Belly-laughs]

Jolly Good!

If there´s one city in Europe Apple should have a presence, it´s London. That´s where it happens!

[winmacguy]

Originally posted by Sedulous
London is a far corner of the world?

Well its not in the US

[Trowaman]

Originally posted by HexMonkey
Hate to spoil everyone's fun, but I think we get the picture

I guess it's above average news.

Spoil sport.

[yoman]

i wonder if the opening of the apple store in London will have as big of a turnout for its Grand Opening as the Tokyo one. Man that line was amazing.

[pedro taquelim]

Originally posted by rogozhin
I would probably be more excited by this story of there were Apple Stores represented in the biggest metropolitan areas of the US first. It amazes me that 23 states do not have Apple Stores. Sure, it seems unlikely that a store in Juneau would have them beating down the doors, but certainly stores located somewhere in the swath of 'flyover states' that include Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama might do okay. It's difficult enough to convince someone to buy a Mac when they can't see them... Meanwhile, Best Buys and Walmarts sprout like mushrooms, selling substandard Wintel boxes to potential Apple costumers. But hey, best of luck in throwing up stores in the far corners of the world; I guess it looks more exotic to say you have a store in London or Tokyo than it does to say you have a store in Wichita or Billings.

Please define " far corners of the world ".

Are you linving inside a box? Everything that is outside of your country is a far corner of the world, is that it?

For me you are in a far corner of the world... it's all a matter of perspective isn't it?

cheers

pedro...in Lisbon-Portugal...a far corner of the world. :-)

[sethypoo]

Still I wonder why someone voted "negative" on this story.

[sethypoo]

Originally posted by rogozhin
I would probably be more excited by this story of there were Apple Stores represented in the biggest metropolitan areas of the US first. It amazes me that 23 states do not have Apple Stores. Sure, it seems unlikely that a store in Juneau would have them beating down the doors, but certainly stores located somewhere in the swath of 'flyover states' that include Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama might do okay. It's difficult enough to convince someone to buy a Mac when they can't see them... Meanwhile, Best Buys and Walmarts sprout like mushrooms, selling substandard Wintel boxes to potential Apple costumers. But hey, best of luck in throwing up stores in the far corners of the world; I guess it looks more exotic to say you have a store in London or Tokyo than it does to say you have a store in Wichita or Billings.

That was, quite possibly, the most ignorant post I have ever read. Apple is not and never will be a Wal*Mart, since 1) they don't have the revenue to open up that many stores and 2) they sell quality products.

[orb]

Originally posted by Messiatosh
Forget for a minute, forget that the iPod exists. Pretend you were using the same portable music player you had (if you had one) 4 years ago. How did you have your music with you? How many CD's did you carry with you? How many did you want to be able to use?

I took all my CDs out of their cases and stored them in binders that held about 100 CDs. I had two of them and tossed them in my backpack on mondays and lugged them to work. On friday, I'd lug them back home so I could have my music at home. If I went anywhere else, I just didn't have music because it was too much of a pain to pick which CDs I wanted.

Thankfully now I can fit all my CDs on my computer and I just need to lug a laptop back and forth to work instead of two huge binders. And, I have my ipod for when I can't bring my laptop, but unfortunately I only have a 5gb ipod which isn't nearly enough to hold my music. It's good in a pinch, but I'd rather have something a bit bigger.

[ITR 81]

Alabama has a store coming this fall.

This London store is old news since IFO reported it a few months ago..just like the Paris store.

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/stores/chronology.html

[ITR 81]

Originally posted by sethypoo
That was, quite possibly, the most ignorant post I have ever read. Apple is not and never will be a Wal*Mart, since 1) they don't have the revenue to open up that many stores and 2) they sell quality products.

Apple said they will try to have 80 stores open by the time kids come back to school from Spring Break. So I figure Apple is trying to hit around 90 stores world wide by yr end.

[heuer007]

Originally posted by rogozhin
But hey, best of luck in throwing up stores in the far corners of the world; I guess it looks more exotic to say you have a store in London or Tokyo than it does to say you have a store in Wichita or Billings.

What an imcompetent american prick. And you wonder why people hate you guys.

[user banned for this comment. no insults please.]

[~Shard~]

Sounds great! I'll have to visit it when I'm there in the fall. Now just bring on iTMS Europe and everyone will be really happy!

[mj_1903]

I wonder which corner Australia is in if London is a far corner? I also wonder why Oklahoma would need an Apple store when Sydney itself has a greater population?

Hell, using that analogy, where is the Apple store in India or China? From memory their population is 4x as high yet there is no presence....

[Awimoway]

Meanwhile, back to the actual story...

Congrats to our friends across the pond. I, for one, lived for a long time in one of the "flyover" states that has a high percentage of computer-literate residents (Utah), and I felt snubbed every time a new store was announced that wasn't in Salt Lake, but I have long felt that there ought to be a flagship store in London, and I'm glad the time has come. I'm sure it will be great.

(For the record, London is bar none the finest big city in the world. )