Apple Store #1 in the Southern Hemisphere is dropping very soon according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Apple has placed a huge Bondi (Beach) Blue sign reading: "Drop in soon. Apple Store, Sydney". The temporary sign marks the first official acknowledgement that Apple will be opening one of its flagship stores in downtown Sydney.
The 77 King Street address store will cover three levels and each floor will contain 445 square metres of retail space.
According to ifoAppleStore, the Sydney flagship store is expected to open its doors on June 19th (in time for a Australian 3G iPhone rollout?)
Two other Apple stores are slated to open in Australia..One in the posh North Shore suburb of Chatswood (what?! Nothing in Double Pay?), the other in Melbourne's Chadstone shopping centre.
For those not in the know, Sydney and Melbourne have something of a little city rivalry going not dissimilar to the New York and Boston thing. Apple seems to be covering the bases by spreading the store love across both cities.
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North Shore applestore
It makes sense to put a store in Chatswood, there are already 2 thriving resellers there, and the shopping centre there building it in is pretty upmarket.
wrong fact
it states that it is the first apple store in the southern hemisphere...this is wrong
i bought my macbook in the apple store in Buenos Aires, Argentina
nice one apple
Classic Apple. "there are already 2 thriving resellers there" Why not move in and crush the little guys that have built their business up in this area.
Not the first store...
This article's a bit misleading. The Sydney store may be the first 'official' Apple Store in the Southern hemisphere, but Apple has been represented in the region for years now. Official Apple distributors like the Core Group in South Africa have created Apple Stores patterned after the real thing and virtually indistinguishable once inside.
Still, the article is largely correct. Nice to see Apple starting to move officially into our part of the world.