Apple preparing another large London store?

Yes please to Reading. Where was the lease signed for?

Plus, Reading is Microsofts UK head office so they need one there just for the cause!!

Well it was said for where La-Zenza is placed as the lease was up and move out onto the high street. It's a shame it hasn't happened though because i applied for a job.

It has been mentioned that there could be lease in the new shopping center thats being built Chatham Place just of Oxford Rd.
Let's hope for all the Apple Fans who live in Berkshire this is true!!!!!

I think Regents Street is great - one of the few shops I enjoy going to. Everyone I know who's been there (even my mum!) think it's great.

i've had to go a few times and i hate it. but i've only been when it's been extremely busy and it is certainly not designed for the amount of custom it does get. it looks nice and all when i've seen through the windows when it's closed but it's terrible when full.

for a start it has no signage (you'd think apple would have good signage, but it has non) and *everything* is kept below head level which means that when it's crowded knowing what people are crowded around is impossible without forcing your way to the front. (I still have no idea what's on those tables near the entrance) I don't think the table layout helps those busy times either. From my experience, the first time you go there, if it's busy, you have to ask where stuff is.

If you've never been there before how would you know that software (or anything else for that matter) is upstairs, there's nothing to tell you.

Plus if you're upstairs trying to find the tills is difficult, what with no signage pointing you downstairs and the two 'genius' bars upstairs looking like they might be payment points with nothing to differentiate them esp. when they're surrounded by all the people they have had when i've been there.

Personally i think it's poorly designed for the amount of people they have in there. People i've spoken to have agreed with me so i can't be that crazy :S :D

With the Cabot Circus development coming up and a rich media heritage in the city with Aardman and BBC you'd think we'd be high up on the list, wouldn't you?

Though Western Computer up by Temple Meads is probably terrified of even the hint of a Apple Retail store being put up!!

The new part of the arndale is quite nice actually.

Of course we already have two (the other one being at the trafford centre, and opens till 10pm each night) so we can hardly be complaining when large parts of the country don't even have access to one!