SillyDog701

[Antony]

Apple has announced the grand opening of Apple Store, Sydney, the first Apple Retail Store in Australia and also the first one in the southern hemisphere on 19th June at 5.00 pm.

The first 2,500 customers will get a free limited-edition T-shirt.

Apple Store is located on the corner of George and King Streets in Sydney CBD.



link: Apple Store - Sydney - Grand Opening

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[Antony]

Anyone in Sydney or coming to Sydney for the Apple Store grand opening?

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[Antony]

This morning:


The queue has started before I passed there this morning.

(Photos were taken at 11am this morning, about 30 hours to go until official opening to public.)

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[Antony]

Photos from inside Apple Store, Sydney by The Sydney Morning Herald.
http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2008/ ... index.html

It is said to be the second largest Apple Store in the world.

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[Antony]

Here are some news clips from Seven, Nine and Ten (yesterday afternoon):

From Seven News At 4.30.
[url="http://ant.sillydog.org/mov/seven/AppleStore_7News430_080618.mp4"][/url]

From National Nine Afternoon News:
[url="http://ant.sillydog.org/mov/nine/AppleStore_9AfternoonNews_080618.mp4"][/url]

From Ten News At Five (Sydney):
[url="http://ant.sillydog.org/mov/ten/AppleStore_10News_080618.mp4"][/url]


Photo of Antony behind the bars (actually, queuing for Apple Store.)

(around 3.40am local time)

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[iJohnE]

Planning on getting any new products to go with your collection?

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[Antony]

Right outside Apple Store on King St. I'm within the first 50 people in the queue.

(Posting from iPod touch via Apple Store's free wifi)

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[Antony]

Me, in the queue.

(Laurent just brought my MacBook Pro and my Vodafone mobile broadband card.)

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[Antony]

I guess no other SillyDog701 members queuing outside Apple Store Sydney for the grand opening.

I walked into the store not long after 5pm (as I was one of the first 50 customers). I got the Apple T-shirt.



I left at around 5.35, and there are still thousands of people wanting to get into Apple Store Sydney.


(more photos and in larger size are in this blog entry)

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[Antony]

There is supposed to be something about the staircase in every store, a center staircase from the ground floor to the top floor? Maybe the treads are all glass? Please tell us your impressions of the store. Over here, the story is that the Apple stores are selling over half of computers above $US1000.00.

Tell us all about it, and, especially if you part with any money.

>>RSM

As for the glass staircase, it has since become Apple Store's tradition design (if the Store size allows).
In Apple Store Sydney, the staircase is not visible from outside, and not the first thing you can see when you walk in.



My impression about the store? It's really beautiful, and the feeling is different... (not just because it is Apple but) you don't get the pushed to buy anything.

I bought a cleaning kit (iKlear). I did not have anything that I want to buy at the time of visiting. (I have pretty much every Apple products I need, for now.)
iPhone 3G is the next item.

One problem with Apple Store Sydney's location: no parking around. Unless you are willing to pay $8-$10 (or even higher) per hour parking rate. Well, it's in Sydney CBD.

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[richard mitnick]

Antony-

Fabulous job.

>>RSM

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[richard mitnick]

Hey John-

See? Here we are, talking in Sidney, and we never even left home.

Thanks, Antony!!

>>RSM

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