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Apple Store to open in city centre

  • 08-02-2011 11:04PM
    #1
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭


    According to today's Sentinel, the Apple Store have identified a location on Shop Street for a shop.


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  • #2
    collegegal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 137 ✭✭collegegal


    yippee!! LOVE that store!


  • #3
    James Forde
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭James Forde


    source source source source source

    i'd never be able to afford anything but still.....


  • #4
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,968 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Tell us more :)


  • #5
    Smetes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭Smetes


    Nice one, but will it be in Dublin anyone know?


  • #6
    ErnieBert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭ErnieBert


    bryanjf wrote: »
    source source source source source

    i'd never be able to afford anything but still.....

    It's in today's Sentinel newspaper (8 Feb 2011).

    It's just a snippet and there is nothing on their website www.galwaynews.ie


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  • #7
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,148 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    I would be delighted if they opened one! I'm lucky enough that I'm in college in Limerick so it's just a bus into the city if anything happened to my Mac. I'll be finished there soon though and it'll be back to Galway for me and my Mac so this is great news.


  • #8
    PomBear
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    When's it due to open?


  • #9
    emptybladder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 332 ✭✭emptybladder


    mars bar wrote: »
    I would be delighted if they opened one! I'm lucky enough that I'm in college in Limerick so it's just a bus into the city if anything happened to my Mac. I'll be finished there soon though and it'll be back to Galway for me and my Mac so this is great news.

    You do know GalMac are in the Liosban ind estate?


  • #10
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Oh no, look out over Galway Bay there's a giant smug cloud heading our way! :P

    Not a big fan of Apple computers but I'm glad it's coming in a way, competition is a good thing and job creation is even better!

    Will those bleeding hearts that hate Galway allowing non-local businesses to open on Shop Street kick up a fuss here or does Apple get an exception?


  • #11
    spinandscribble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,000 ✭✭✭spinandscribble


    emptybladder wrote: »
    You do know GalMac are in the Liosban ind estate?

    had a bad experience with them, will be glad to have a mac shop when i'm back this summer.


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  • #12
    moonflower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭moonflower


    Am I imagining things again or did we have an Apple Shop before, downstairs in the Eyre Square Centre? I have vague memories of being in a shop full of white shiny things.

    I'm no Apple fan, but if it creates a few jobs it can only be a good thing. Wonder where it'll be, I can't think of anywhere on Shop St that's available and would be the right size.


  • #13
    magentas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,194 ✭✭✭magentas


    moonflower wrote: »
    Am I imagining things again or did we have an Apple Shop before, downstairs in the Eyre Square Centre? I have vague memories of being in a shop full of white shiny things.
    I'd say you're maybe thinking of the 3 or 3V shop, it was a corner unit just across from la croissantre (can't spell sorry!)

    well if it's creates a few jobs for galway it's all good>>>cue posts informing me otherwise!:D


  • #14
    biko
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    Cool


  • #15
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,277 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    magentas wrote: »
    I'd say you're maybe thinking of the 3 or 3V shop, it was a corner unit just across from la croissantre (can't spell sorry!)

    well if it's creates a few jobs for galway it's all good>>>cue posts informing me otherwise!:D

    It was 3G. They were an Apple seller, not a specific Apple shop


  • #16
    JoeA3
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    I'd be surprised if there's much truth in this... there isn't an Apple Store in the entire country, yet they're thinking of opening the first one in Galway? :confused:


  • #17
    yawnstretch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭yawnstretch


    Sweet, if we get one before Dublin heh heh


  • #18
    biko
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    Can't people just get their apples at Tesco?


  • #19
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    JoeA3 wrote: »
    I'd be surprised if there's much truth in this... there isn't an Apple Store in the entire country, yet they're thinking of opening the first one in Galway? :confused:

    There's one in Swords and one in Liffey Valley

    http://www.apple.com/ie/buy/locator/map.html?tySearch=1&viaProduct=2&viaSpecial=-1&strCountry=IRL&lat=53.4573436&lng=-6.2193688&gCountry=IE&c3=2


  • #20
    Mr Simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭Mr Simpson


    They're Currys and PC World. Apple Resellers rather than Apple stores.


  • #21
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    mmcn90 wrote: »
    They're Currys and PC World. Apple Resellers rather than Apple stores.

    Well I live in Swords and the one in Swords is definitely Apple.

    If they were Currsy & PC World I'd expect there to be more than two.

    Edit: Actually you're right. Sorry. The ones in that link are Currys & PCWorld
    There's one in the Pavillions in Swords (opened just before Christmas) though that definitely is an Apple Store though. It's a bit weird that it's not showing on Apples site.


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  • #22
    clived2
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    biko wrote: »
    Can't people just get their apples at Tesco?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI


  • #23
    vinniew09
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    theres one somewere between oconnell street and stephens green


  • #24
    Shifty11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 173 ✭✭Shifty11


    mickoneill30 wrote: »
    Well I live in Swords and the one in Swords is definitely Apple.

    If they were Currsy & PC World I'd expect there to be more than two.

    Edit: Actually you're right. Sorry. The ones in that link are Currys & PCWorld
    There's one in the Pavillions in Swords (opened just before Christmas) though that definitely is an Apple Store though. It's a bit weird that it's not showing on Apples site.

    The one in pavillions is actually CompuBe or something. Sells apple goods but not an official apple store per sé.


  • #25
    mickoneill30
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭mickoneill30


    Shifty11 wrote: »
    The one in pavillions is actually CompuBe or something. Sells apple goods but not an official apple store per sé.

    Ah OK, I'll shut up so. :o


  • #26
    Eman Resu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Eman Resu


    To paraphrase a saying from WWII...

    Over Priced, Over Rated, Over here.


  • #27
    dloob
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    vinniew09 wrote: »
    theres one somewere between oconnell street and stephens green

    Pretty sure that's also a CompuB.


  • #28
    Head The Wall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭Head The Wall


    Eman Resu wrote: »
    To paraphrase a saying from WWII...

    Over Priced, Over Rated, Over here.

    Agreed, Apple products are mediocre with excellent marketing which most uninformed people fall for.

    MAC computers run on Intel hardware nowadays so I fail to see why they cost 2 to 3 times the price of a similar spec machine running windows when they are the exact same bar looks and the OS which to me don't justify the differential.

    I'll bite my tongue about the iPhone for now


  • #29
    996tt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 210 ✭✭996tt


    Head The Wall wrote: »
    Agreed, Apple products are mediocre with excellent marketing which most uninformed people fall for.

    MAC computers run on Intel hardware nowadays so I fail to see why they cost 2 to 3 times the price of a similar spec machine running windows when they are the exact same bar looks and the OS which to me don't justify the differential.

    I'll bite my tongue about the iPhone for now

    Their top end stuff are better than the competition but their budget stuff is no better.

    Most top graphical designers/photographer/video editors use apple computer


  • #30
    Eman Resu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Eman Resu


    996tt wrote: »
    Their top end stuff are better than the competition but their budget stuff is no better.

    Most top graphical designers/photographer/video editors use apple computer

    Agreed that Apple have the high end DTP,DTV etc market sorted but I would replace the word budget with domestic. Even the cheapest Apple product costs a lot for what you are getting.


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  • #31
    sgthighway
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    Do these Apple Stores have a device installed that reads your iPhone.
    This device then reports back to the Sales Guy so he can go up and say; Hello "who ever the phone is registered to". They can then walk back to the computer and he knows from your Apps on your iPhone what your into?


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