News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
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Apple has announced that its second NSW store will open on Saturday 9 August in Chatswood on Sydney's North Shore. The Store, in the Chatswood Chase shopping centre at 345 Victoria Avenue, promises to be somewhat smaller than the large George Street store in Sydney's CBD but will also offer the same One to One training, Genius Bar and other services as the flagship store. Apple has so far indicated that it will also be opening a shopfront location in the Chadstone shopping centre near Melbourne, but has not yet disclosed any CBD location in that city.
When the Sydney Store opened in June Apple fans came from all over the country to queue, some for over 24 hours, to be first through the doors. Those lucky first entrants gained t-shirts, not to mention media (and other) exposure — it was a very cold night. This Friday night the forecast calls for 7 degrees Celsius so if you're planning to camp for a t-shirt, bring woolens.
The Store is on the ground level of Chatswood Chase shopping centre, just up the escalator from the Victoria Road entrance and next to OPSM.
Australian Macworld will bring more details of the Chatswood Apple Store as they come to hand.
Strong demand for Macs driven by record laptop sales helped Apple turn a $US1.05 billion profit for its fiscal second quarter. The company sold 2.2 million Macs from January to March, helping drive sales of $US7.51 billion for the strongest March quarter in Apple’s history. Apple’s profit rose 36 percent from the second quarter of 2007, with revenue rising 43 percent. The company reported earnings per share of $US1.16 for the just-completed second quarter, a 33-percent rise over last year’s number.
Jim Dalrymple and Philips Michaels | Apr 25, 2008
Apple has lifted the lid on what would have to go down as its worst-kept secret of recent times: the Sydney Apple Store will be located at the corner of King and George Streets, in the former Westpac office tower. While everyone with an even vague interest in the activities of the Mac-maker has known this for months thanks to leaks and searches of City of Sydney planning approvals, the company has remained fairly quiet — at least on the record. There have also been job advertisements on Apple's recruitment web site, but these have not specified the address.
Matthew JC. Powell | May 26, 2008
Apple has announced the opening of its first retail store in Australia which will be at 5:00pm on the 19th of June. Anyone with even the veguest of interest in the subject had already gleaned that information from other sources of course, but now Apple has said it officially. It has also identified that spirally iPod pattern on the banner outside the store as a wave. The invitation says the store is "breaking" on the 19th of June, while invitations to the media preview on the 18th invites us to "catch the first wave". So there you go.
Matthew JC. Powell | Jun 12, 2008
App Store developers will now be able to reach customers in 13 new countries, according to an announcement on the iPhone Developer Program news page.
