1. Awesome. Now they just need one in Adelaide too...

Posted at 11:11PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Beau

2. Why would they put an AppleStore in Adelaide?
Only Cool People get AppleStores. :)
(I'm a Melbournian)

Posted at 11:26PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Dan Woods

3. Says you, Melbourne ;) The article does point out it's coming to Sydney.

Of course, Mike, unless you know something we don't, there won't be any iPhones to buy there- none in Asia yet! To be fair, they may be by the time the store opens- fingers crossed!

Posted at 11:39PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Mark

4. It'll need to open after mid-2008 if they expect us to be able to pick up an iPhone there, they haven't made any announcements about them for Australia at all as yet :(

Thank goodness for the iPhone dev team to keep our iPhones unlocked here until they do!

Posted at 11:55PM on Oct 11th 2007 by Ricochet

5. Yeah I'm with Beau, I would love an Apple Store in Adelaide! Each major city should get one.
I don't want to have to go all the way to Sydney just to see a REAL Apple Store.

Posted at 12:11AM on Oct 12th 2007 by Rhys

6. I hate to break it to you, but these exact images have been out for quite a while, since February: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/02/08/glass_adorned_apple_store_sydney_revealed_images.html

Also: they started recruiting internally for the Sydney store a little over a month ago, so it should be opening fairly soon (within a few more months, I'd guess)

Posted at 1:01AM on Oct 12th 2007 by ars_workerbee

7. How about Perth? Maybe? Please?

Posted at 1:20AM on Oct 12th 2007 by Seth Amott

8. I'm with Dan, Melbourne is the style capital of Australia so we should get a Apple store before Adelaide (The 'perfect' colony). Not that i'm against sharing the love...

Posted at 1:25AM on Oct 12th 2007 by fa11en1

9. @ars_workerbee:

kudos for sharing that with us. :-)

Posted at 1:51AM on Oct 12th 2007 by Beau

10. workerbee I was at the construction site a few days ago, it has a LONG way to go before completing, not before the end of the year that's sure.

Posted at 2:11AM on Oct 12th 2007 by Jake

11. I'd always thought March/April 2008 was the timeframe, and that the iPhone release would be around that time too. Wishful thinking I guess.

Wonder how NextByte over in Clarence Street will be affected when it eventually opens? Maybe they'll be sabotaging the site! Although they have a lot of corporate accounts and probably don't care so much about the retail traffic.

As for the plans, I believe they were on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

Posted at 2:34AM on Oct 12th 2007 by MacSkippy

12. old news.....

Posted at 3:07AM on Oct 12th 2007 by Mr Lizard

13. And by the UK store you surely mean the London Regent St store? There are a total of 11 stores across the UK!

Posted at 3:30AM on Oct 12th 2007 by JohnnyWalker

14. We NEED a real  Apple Store in Brissie too! The ones here - except for the one in the Meyer Store in the Meyer Centre - Quuen Street Mall - are pitiful. No stock, no 3rd party stuff, and no information. They do not know their  stuff, at all. They are like a pack of Galahs.

The above mentioned "store" = top floor Meyers - is like walking into a "real"  Apple Store in the States! They even have a non-genius Genius On Duty (G.O.D.) bar... no tech support BUT they do have training and all of the guys wear black Ts and have give aways! Heh! (Well they used to have give aways). I am wearing my "Hello I'm a Mac." T-shirt. :P

Would I travel to SYD to walk into a real Apple Shop in Oz. In a heartbeart!

Posted at 4:02AM on Oct 12th 2007 by kakapo

15. Perhaps that also means that His Steveness will finally get around to bestowing upon us lowly Aussies the (apparent) wonder that is iPrinting.

Local alternatives are far too expensive. I've even had items printed (as it turns out, in Germany - go figure...), sent to an address in the UK, then shipped to me Down Under.

Oh, and now that we're also getting American TV shows within a week of them first airing in the US, when are we going to get all that special movie and TV loving via iTunes...that is, if there're any TV shows worth watching left on iTunes?

Posted at 4:10AM on Oct 12th 2007 by Steve H