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I'm still interested in what's happening in Edinburgh... Any news? I saw that the rumoured location, the old Burger King opposite the Balmoral Hotel, was having some exterior renovation and interior work done to it. Is that a sign of something happening there?

I think it is. Worker inside says floor is white and very open space. Would be lovely.
 
Still no sign of Berlin! :(

seriously! what gives?!

5 or 6 apple stores in germany and we're still stuck with Gravis! :confused:

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Rumor has it that the Hugendubel Book Store that is shutting down on Tauentzienstraße 13 across from the memorial church on Ku'Damm is going to be turned into an Apple store :) The truth of the matter is that German urban planners, especially in Berlin, have unbelievably strict restrictions and regulations when it comes to building new structures in the city, and it's unclear whether a bright white store with tons of glass is very "fitting" for this particular area of the Berliner cityscape. So, don't hold your breath, but if there is one I'm pretty sure that's where it'll be.

Germany has strict urban regulations?! NO WAY!
:rolleyes:
 
I've said the same many times. A lot of the units are very small: possibly too small for Apple. And the larger retail units don't seem to become available all that frequently.

True. Actually, the small units don't seem to change very frequently. It would make life so much easier though. I don't know what the parking is like at the new Westfields but in the past I've always driven to Lakeside to get Apple stuff repaired.
 
True. Actually, the small units don't seem to change very frequently. It would make life so much easier though. I don't know what the parking is like at the new Westfields but in the past I've always driven to Lakeside to get Apple stuff repaired.

I am too snobby/find Lakeside too chavy so normally go to Bluewater instead (about the same time/distance for me).
 
"northeastern portion of London"

Sorry to be pedantic but Stratford is very much just East London
 
Dear Apple,

Stores outside London please.

Yours sincerely,

The rest of the UK.

Dear LastLine,

Thanks for bringing to our attention that Aberdeen, Basingstoke, Bath, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Norwich, Reading, Sheffield and Southampton are all in London.

Yours etc,

Apple


;-)
 
I am too snobby/find Lakeside too chavy so normally go to Bluewater instead (about the same time/distance for me).

Bluewater's a bit further for me and involves the Dartford crossing. I agree Lakeside is horrendously chavvy (especially since you have to walk through Primark if you park outside) but it's an easy drive. The Stratford one might do the job but I haven't driven there yet. The DLR now goes straight there I think but I'm a lazy bugger and prefer to drive. They've got an 'introductory car park offer' where you get two hours of parking for free. Hopefully that'll stick or they do the same thing as Canary and let you have free parking if you spend more than a tenner at Waitrose.
 
Am very glad to see many store open in china. No sense to pay attention to US that is very much the past not future.

If the US is "the past", how come so many Chinese people seem fascinated with US culture, technology, and the like? Why do tens of thousands of the best Chinese students come to study in US universities?

When I see US businesspeople opening up fake Leonovo stores; US teenagers pirating Chinese pop songs; and the best US students rushing to apply to Tsinghua and the Harbin Institute of Technology, rather than Harvard or MIT - then I'll believe China is "the future." Until then, I'll keep my options open.
 
Why so rude to Germany when they are successful country?? Is not same comparison.

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There is term for this. It is 'legacy', like in software which you think you know. Apple know China is where the brains now are. Brains = $$

I do know software, and proper grammar for that matter.

I also know something else; those Apple devices don't say "Designed in China, Assembled in California". The USA exports manufacturing to China and Mexico. Does that mean that the brains are there or the cheap labor? Hmmmm... Maybe Mexico is the future?

Your comment that the brains are in China is ridiculous. I deal with Chinese employees all the time in my work and the company I work for has a large footprint there (and many other countries). Sure there are smart people there and from there. Just as many as I encounter in India, Canada, and the UK. But the bulk of the innovation by my employer comes out of the USA -- and the same is true for Apple. Right now China means two things to Apple: manufacturing and untapped customers -- yes $$.

Your ignorant and unintelligent insults to the intelligence of an entire nation of people is quite ironic. I sure hope you are not Chinese since that would further discredit your arguments that the brains are in China, though there are always exceptions to the rule, right?
 
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The truth of the matter is that German urban planners, especially in Berlin, have unbelievably strict restrictions and regulations when it comes to building new structures in the city, and it's unclear whether a bright white store with tons of glass is very "fitting" for this particular area of the Berliner cityscape.

Is this the same city where I saw a massive glass dome perched on top of some public building? Or perhaps that was another more modern city of the same name?
 
Still no sign of Berlin! :(

I'm an American. However, I've been to Berlin and it is one of my favorite cities, and a seemingly perfect site for an :apple: Store.

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Am very glad to see many store open in china. No sense to pay attention to US that is very much the past not future.

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True, if by the "future" you mean no respect for intellectual property, cheapening product quality, supressed dissent against the central government, massive disruption of people's lives through public works, internal migration restrictions, government regulation of childbearing, and arbitrary rule of law. And the resulting aging of the population, gender inbalance and growing disparity between urban and rural incomes, of course. If that's the "future", I'm happy to be living very much in the "past." :D
 
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nylonsteel said:
re china store
sheesh - is china still communist? - looks very captitalistic to me - the chinese govt should just reform into a democracy

China has been Capitalistic for a looong time, some students got annoyed and tried to protest the change to capalistic economy… They were killed of in some square…

as for democracy… that is an overused word…
 
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nylonsteel said:
re china store
sheesh - is china still communist? - looks very captitalistic to me - the chinese govt should just reform into a democracy

China has been Capitalistic for a looong time, some students got annoyed and tried to protest the change to capalistic economy… They were killed of in some square…

as for democracy… that is an overused word…
 
I do know software, and proper grammar for that matter.

I also know something else; those Apple devices don't say "Designed in China, Assembled in California". The USA exports manufacturing to China and Mexico. Does that mean that the brains are there or the cheap labor? Hmmmm... Maybe Mexico is the future?

Your comment that the brains are in China is ridiculous. I deal with Chinese employees all the time in my work and the company I work for has a large footprint there (and many other countries). Sure there are smart people there and from there. Just as many as I encounter in India, Canada, and the UK. But the bulk of the innovation by my employer comes out of the USA -- and the same is true for Apple. Right now China means two things to Apple: manufacturing and untapped customers -- yes $$.

Your ignorant and unintelligent insults to the intelligence of an entire nation of people is quite ironic. I sure hope you are not Chinese since that would further discredit your arguments that the brains are in China, though there are always exceptions to the rule, right?

Simple.

http://www.economist.com/node/21528226

Thank you very much for prove my point on US. You only see what you want and insult other culture. You do business in other country? I think not since you can only speak English. Sounds like story to me. :D

Apple is smart for expanding to China. Very smart.
 
There are a dozen huge British cities with no Apple Stores, and yet they decide

"Let's build another one in London!"

They need to replace the Apple Team in the UK who decides where to build here, not even Lincoln, A huge, pretty rich city which is loaded with electronic and gadget stores, and was voted "Geek Capital City of the North" has one. And Lincoln is swarming with thousands of College and University students anyway.

Next time he says "Hmmm what about another Apple store in London?" he should be fired.

Out of a cannon.

Into the Sun.
 
Rumor has it that the Hugendubel Book Store that is shutting down on Tauentzienstraße 13 across from the memorial church on Ku'Damm is going to be turned into an Apple store :) The truth of the matter is that German urban planners, especially in Berlin, have unbelievably strict restrictions and regulations when it comes to building new structures in the city, and it's unclear whether a bright white store with tons of glass is very "fitting" for this particular area of the Berliner cityscape. So, don't hold your breath, but if there is one I'm pretty sure that's where it'll be.

First read concrete info about the Berlin Apple Store in January. Apparently it's on Ku'damm 26, which is an old cinema building...

http://www.ifoapplestore.com/db/2011/01/14/century-old-building-to-house-berlin-apple-store/

A pic taken last month...

http://www.unserort.de/Berlin+Charl...hten/Schnappschuss-4e40fadf26cfd2daae02.shtml

Can't be long now! :)
 
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