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Apple opened a new retail store in Glasgow, UK this weekend. As usual, we asked any TUAW operatives who may have attended to share their reports and/or pictures. So, did you go, and if you did, how was it? Let us know in the comments. Here's hoping you scored a T-shirt or even the Opening Day Contest's grand prize!Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ric said 1:56PM on 8-25-2007
'applestoreglasgow' tag on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=all&q=applestoreglasgow&m=tags
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Nev said 2:01PM on 8-25-2007
I headed along this morning from Edinburgh. There's a few shots up on my blog entry:
http://nevstokes.com/blog/2007/08/25/cult-of-apple/#more-20
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Ian D said 2:20PM on 8-25-2007
I thought the opening went really well. Blog post here. Flickr set
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fraser Speirs said 2:53PM on 8-25-2007
Here's my photo coverage:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraserspeirs/sets/72157601659384861/
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Mike Krus said 5:20PM on 8-25-2007
my pictures http://picasaweb.google.com/chezleskrus/AppleStoreBuchananStreetOpening
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David Masters said 4:10PM on 12-18-2007
Queued from midnight for the opening - well worth it! Blog post (including video) at:
http://www.pyrusmalus.com/blog/archives/2007/08/25/apple_store_glasgow_crazy_ones.html
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Fabio said 5:48PM on 8-25-2007
I'm just landed back home in Milan, Italy. I have 66 images from the grand opening of the Apple Store in Glasgow, I'm sorry the text is in Italian.
FIRST GALLERY - http://www.setteb.it/content/view/2534
SECOND GALLERY - http://www.setteb.it/content/view/2535
...and the FRIDAY GALLERY - http://www.setteb.it/content/view/2532
Anyway the people outside the nice and ancient building were 70 at 7 am (the coffee was delivered as a gift from Apple at 7:30, opposite the Apple Store there is a Starbucks) Saturday morning, hundreds at 9 am but they continued to come to the store after 9 am.
Thanks.
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Alex Waddell said 6:10PM on 8-25-2007
I was in line (about number 60) - great opening, fantastic store. My .Mac web gallery is at :
http://gallery.mac.com/alex.waddell#100056&bgcolor=black (tis includes pictures from a number of sources - gotta love the social capability in the new .Mac web gallery).
The Apple store staff (US and Glasgow) were all fantastic - this is going to blow away the local competition - about time too!
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disappointed said 1:02AM on 8-26-2007
I wasn't there from the start so missed out on craic while waiting for the store to open - glad that everyone who queued for 9.00am enjoyed it.
at 6.30pm walked straight in and despite it still being busy was able to play around with the new iMac (better in white)and a MBP (if only I had some spare cash)so all was good
until I started to really look at the place - there seems to be an awful lot of empty space and the range of peripherals is rather limited - after about 5 minutes it felt like a garage sale at the end of the day with nothimg left I wanted to buy. And after reputedly spending over £1million the only conclusion I could come to is glass is extremely expensive and could relace diamonds as a girl's best friend.
After anticpating for months about the store opening, I felt a bit underwhelemed by the place, which is a shame as I still get a tingle every time I go into one of the American stores.
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David said 6:41AM on 8-26-2007
Finally able to get an apple new style keyboard- i like the wireless payment that was class. Will be a valuable addition to Glasgow - it's the only thing this great city missed. Finally Scotsys is going to get the kicking they deserve!
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Pahtlor said 11:19AM on 8-26-2007
Put my photos up now: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12161898@N06/sets/72157601662512637/
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Digitographer said 11:49AM on 8-26-2007
Full report here -
http://web.mac.com/digitographer/Digitographer/AppleStore.html
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King Fysel said 11:38AM on 8-29-2007
I guess it's "Glasgow, UK" if you live someplace like San Francisco, North America.
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MacMan said 8:32PM on 8-26-2007
I arrived outside the Store at about 6.45am and joined the steadily growing queue. The time seemed to fly by quickly and soon everyone was flooding forward through the doors. It was an amazing experience! I brought my Newton MessagePad 2000 with me and showed it to alot of people who were interested. It was good fun comparing it to someone's iPhone!
Here are my photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23826245@N00/sets/72157601670007838/
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Steve McLintock said 8:48AM on 8-27-2007
The grand opening was great! I attended from 5am and had an amazing time.
Check out my blog post with pics here: http://stevemclintock.com/view.php?id=32
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Lorna MacKenzie said 6:39PM on 8-28-2007
I walked straight in to the store at 10:30am on the big opening day to cheers and a wee white box Yipee I got the free tee-shirt, although disappointed as it displayed 'Buchanan street' in the middle with a very small apple. Anyhow, the store is class and can't wait to go to some workshops.
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macindog said 7:04PM on 8-29-2007
Wandered in at about 4pm and it was still pretty busy. Lots of glass and a bit too minimalist for my liking but it works well as a showroom for Apple kit.
Seriously underwhelmed at viewing a YouTube video via AppleTV on an HT TV! What on earth are Apple thinking about? It makes it so bad looking.
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Ronald McWhinnie said 9:16PM on 9-24-2007
Nice store but i feel a bit cheated with there management,I had inquired when the iPOD TOUCH would be on sale and was told the 28th September.
I was in Glasgow on the 21st when to my horror they had been put on sale, and sold out.
Apple are to greedy and should have waited to give everyone a chance of buying one on the official release date.
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