International Apple Stores: Canada, UK, Australia

[miniConvert]

I'm curious as to why there's one going up in Solihull. I mean, sure, it's a wealthy suburb, but surely cities like Canterbury would make far better candidates?

Oh well. With any luck the youth of Solihull will start spending more of their money on MacBooks and less on doing up their cars.

 

[aswitcher]

Store going in on George St

Just phoned Apple Australia and they can't advise when store will open.

You need to work more on your Steve Jobs accent for the next call.

 

[kwajo.com]

How hard can it be to open more stores in Canada!

Cities that need an Apple Store in Canada!

1)Calgary
2)Edmonton
3)Vancouver
4)Other areas of toronto(ie. kitchener/waterloo area)
5)Ottawa
6)London

Like lease or rent a spot in a mall and open a store? not the complicated? and they will do well? how can a store that sells iPods and Macs and soon iPhones fail? its pretty hard!

*cough* forget Atlantic Canada much?

 

[ilikemonkeys]

Sorry Shard but I've got to say it, in terms of retail space, the prices in Ottawa look way more reasonable than Vancouver/Calgary!

oh, I almost forgot to say it: Way to go Montreal!

Your kidding right? Alberta is the only province who does not charge PST. Calgary (supposebly) has the largest population using broadband. Why would Calgary not be a good choice? Us out west need a store! Whatever did happen to the Calgary store? I thought it was going to open in Chinook Mall? Apple used to have job postings for it.

 

[msandersen]

You need to work more on your Steve Jobs accent for the next call.

Obviously no Mac Geniuses on the phone if they think Steve rings Apple Australia to ask when the store is gonna open
Would be a fun prank call though; or perhaps doing a Crocodile Jobs accent. "That's not a phone; THIS is a phone!" (pulls out iPhone; PocketPC user flees).

 

[j26]

Perhaps this is a similar to other manufacturers. Like in Indonesia...where people work in a Nike plant but can't afford to buy the shoes that they, themselves, manufacture. Or like the Island of Fiji. Where something like 35% of the population doesn't have access to clean drinking water yet entire villages may work at the Fiji Water bottling plant. Perhaps its a similar situation in Ireland.....

Ahem...
(report here) table from it below - for you poor people to read!!!!

 

[maestrokev]

Obviously no Mac Geniuses on the phone if they think Steve rings Apple Australia to ask when the store is gonna open
Would be a fun prank call though; or perhaps doing a Crocodile Jobs accent. "That's not a phone; THIS is a phone!" (pulls out iPhone; PocketPC user flees).

Hehe, think I'll try that. Anyone know whether the Apple phone staff work on commission?

 

[morespce54]

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Meanwhile Appleinsider reports that Apple is planning a "double-decker flagship" store in Montreal, Canada. The new store will be located at 1321 Ste-Catherine Quest (location photos) in Montreal's shopping district.

Article Link

Just nitpicking but it's St-Catherine Ouest (as in West, not as in Quest)!

 

[zioxide]

Apple is planning a "double-decker flagship" store in Montreal, Canada.

pfft, Apple is already building a "triple-decker" flagship store in Boston.

 

[Drar3g]

It has more to do with where the premium market is, and not growing too quickly.

Yet it seems difficult to explain why is Apple opening so many stores in the UK and not a single one in the rest of Europe. If it's about markets, why not in Germany, France or Italy? I mean even Spain has a larger economy than Australia or Canada but we won't get Apple stores anytime soon...

 

[jeffy.dee-lux]

News of this got mentioned on the front page header of the major english newspaper in Montreal:


http://digital.montrealgazette.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

here's a photo if the link doesn't work.

 

[Virgil-TB2]

Vancouver is a missed opportunity for Apple

I can just picture it. An iPod store on the waterfront by Vancouvers False Creek. It would be a "skate through" where you can skate in, pick an iPod, swipe the credit card then out the exit and never have to remove your inline roller skates.

This would be totally cool although I have heard rumours for about six months now that they actually are planning one, but in a seriously boring brick cube on Pender street, although nothing has been officially announced.

As a Vancouver resident, this is something I have never understood about Apple's retail plans. To those not in the know about Canada, Vancouver is like Canada's version of LA and San Francisco rolled into one. Vancouver is also always either second or third most populated area in Canada. There should have been *several* stores here before there were stores in backwater burgs like London Ontario and Burlington, (no offense guys this is strictly economics/demographics).

The crap about things being "more expensive" in the West is not an argument that makes any sense. A marginally (tiny!) higher cost of living in an area is not a reason to delay doing retail, and Vancouver is loaded with millionaires, retired Hollywood actors, film industry execs, game developers and so on. Even if you go to the "bad" side of town where all the lefties live and walk into a coffee shop on commercial drive you will see almost every table has a laptop on it and most of them have glowing apples on the lid. These are the "poor" people!

The reason things are (slightly) more expensive in Vancouver is it's the most desirable place to live in Canada and it's practically choked with people with huge amounts of disposable income. Why are there Apple stores in (choke) Alabama, when this huge pool of wealthy digerati in one of the "coolest" cities in North America has not a single store? Makes no sense at all.

 

[AlbinoPigeon]

Appleinsider reports that Apple is planning a "double-decker flagship" store in Montreal, Canada. The new store will be located at 1321 Ste-Catherine Quest (location photos) in Montreal's shopping district.

Article Link

I think it's "1321 Ste-Catherine Ouest" Not "Quest." 'Ouest' is french for West.

 

[AlbinoPigeon]

Your kidding right? Alberta is the only province who does not charge PST. Calgary (supposebly) has the largest population using broadband. Why would Calgary not be a good choice? Us out west need a store! Whatever did happen to the Calgary store? I thought it was going to open in Chinook Mall? Apple used to have job postings for it.

Now to start off, just so you know, I've never done this before. But I did want to gently let you know that 'supposebly' isn't a word. It's 'supposedly.' Go ahead and right click it and look it up in the dictionary.

I'm sorry for doing this, and I hope it doesn't piss you off. I can deal with a lot of bad grammar, hell it's just an online forum. But I'm guessing you also say it out loud when you speak, so I wanted to pass that along!

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

I mean even Spain has a larger economy than Australia or Canada but we won't get Apple stores anytime soon...

by two measures, Spain's GDP is lower than Canada's (but yes, higher than Australia's).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

 

[Supersonic]

I pray for a Leeds store.

I've had the 3 hour round trip to Sheffield Meadowhall 5 times this past year to get various things fixed.

Errr.......there IS a leeds store, not an official Apple store admittedly.

KRCS have a store in the Merrion Centre, which predates all the UK Applestores by years. More knowledgable, real-world staff IMHO compared to the Applestore floozies

 

[Virgil-TB2]

I suspect most Americans don't even know where Ireland is, hence the comments about third world countries.

The average American has no idea where Canada is! (this is the vastly larger country directly to the north of you for those Americans on the list)

I can't find the link, but I saw a video recently where Americans were asked to point out the location of Afganistan or Iraq on a map (the places they are most recently at war with). Several pointed towards Korea and India, but quite a large proportion pointed straight at Australia!

I only remember one person in the clip getting it right.

 

[PumaGuy]

*cough* forget Atlantic Canada much?

Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

 

[PumaGuy]

The average American has no idea where Canada is! (this is the vastly larger country directly to the north of you for those Americans on the list)

I can't find the link, but I saw a video recently where Americans were asked to point out the location of Afganistan or Iraq on a map (the places they are most recently at war with). Several pointed towards Korea and India, but quite a large proportion pointed straight at Australia!

I only remember one person in the clip getting it right.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...205&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

 

[Drar3g]

by two measures, Spain's GDP is lower than Canada's (but yes, higher than Australia's).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

I was pretty sure that Spain overtook Canada as the world's eight largest economy in 2004, but then perhaps Canada has overtaken Spain again
Anyways, I still think we deserve at least one Apple Store... in Barcelona of course

 

[Cowinacape]

Cool, so Toronto and Montreal are covered...

Bring on Ottawa!

(And bring on iTunes TV shows and movies, while we're at it...!)

Pfffft Ottawa , how about something west of Ontario now, you know, the other half of Canada?

 

[PumaGuy]

Pfffft Ottawa , how about something west of Ontario now, you know, the other half of Canada?

Hell, why not one in Nunavut?

 

[Setanta]

Ireland

Perhaps this is a similar to other manufacturers. Like in Indonesia...where people work in a Nike plant but can't afford to buy the shoes that they, themselves, manufacture. Or like the Island of Fiji. Where something like 35% of the population doesn't have access to clean drinking water yet entire villages may work at the Fiji Water bottling plant. Perhaps its a similar situation in Ireland.....

Or maybe not... Measured by per capita GDP (PPP adjusted), Ireland is in fact the 2nd wealthiest country in the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

Just a point of information

 

[twoodcc]

awesome. i hope they continue to build more apple stores everywhere

 

[Tom B.]

How many more Apple Stores does the London area need?

At least 10 times more than everywhere else in the UK combined.