Pictures of the rumoured new belfast apple store

[allmIne]

Nice to meet you andy, I'm andy too.

Are you sure you wana see lots of people there on open day? I personally need to drive down the M1 early in th morning to make it there at 9am. I persoanlly dont want to see too many people turn up cos I want my T-shirt!!

Hey andy

Yeah, I don't mind! It's the first 1000 people, and let's be honest, most of Northern Ireland have very little idea about Apple beyond the iPod; I reckon we're safely enough in the first 1000!

I'll be down very early just for interests sake, I'll be too excited to sleep lol. Don't really know why I'm going, I've just started uni and am broke! Will be loving the t-shirt though

andy.

 

[siddif]

ill be there opening day (im dragging my mum and sis too)

ive been waiting for this for years

i want a t shirt hehe

 

[jarodharris]

Well I'll see you all in the queue. I'm thinking of getting there about 6am or so, but if it is anything like the iphone 3G queue for victoria square the security staff will make us queue outside of the shelter of the shopping centre until 7am or so before letting us shift our chairs/selves in. So I would advise if you are planning an early start, you bring an umbrella just in case (it is Belfast after all!).

T-shirts and a draw....I'm still hoping for apple lucky bags but that's probably being overly optimistic.

 

[zeasar]

I wasnt there at the 3G launch, were there many people queued at victoria square? I plan to drive down to belfast at 8ish, and hope to make it there before 9.

 

[siddif]

bad news on my part due to the stupid busses. though i will be heading out the door at 7 am i wont make it to the europa till 9:30 and add another 30 mins for walking there. hopefully i can still grab a t shirt though im sceptical about that.

if you havent guessed ill be travelling from fermanagh =(

if anyone can get pics of the opening ceremony please post them, i was looking forward to seeing that

 

[allmIne]

bad news on my part due to the stupid busses. though i will be heading out the door at 7 am i wont make it to the europa till 9:30 and add another 30 mins for walking there. hopefully i can still grab a t shirt though im sceptical about that.

if you havent guessed ill be travelling from fermanagh =(

if anyone can get pics of the opening ceremony please post them, i was looking forward to seeing that

Mate! It'll not take 30mins to walk from Europa to Victoria Square! 15mins will do it. Oh, and I'll be taking pics, so I'll post them here

Jarod, I'll be there from 6am or so too

andy.

 

[FlexPen76]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

Someone keep me a spot! I'm coming from Larne, won't be there till about 8:15!

 

[allmIne]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)

Someone keep me a spot! I'm coming from Larne, won't be there till about 8:15!

Look forward to seeing you there! I'll be the snap happy fella taking pics of everything

andy.

 

[zeasar]

Look forward to seeing you there! I'll be the snap happy fella taking pics of everything

andy.

And I will be taking pics of people taking pics of others with my iphone.

 

[jarodharris]

I wasnt there at the 3G launch, were there many people queued at victoria square? I plan to drive down to belfast at 8ish, and hope to make it there before 9.

There was a few of us there very early but the bulk of people didn't turn up until about 7 or 8 am. By the time the doors were opening there was maybe 50-60 people in the queue. I would imagine the numbers will be a bit larger for this.

I can't wait....my shopping wish list is getting larger and larger (and less and less affordable/probable!) in my head by the minute!

See you all there

Jonathan

 

[allmIne]

Ohohohohoh I am SO excited now.

I busto'd my full tilt account last week, and last night entered a lil $2 tourny for the craic, and ended up coming 1st / 187 runners for $110, so now I can buy a keyboard and mouse, for free really

Better still, won a £20 amazon voucher today at uni, though I can't use it tomorrow obv

I can't waiiiiit!

andy.

 

[sgibson]

Well, I'm off to bed for an early start in the morning. See you all there.

BTW: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=39247899040

 

[jarodharris]

At the apple store now..., 5 of us here so far.I stole a pic through a hole in the tarp. Looking good...workmen and ladies working away to get it ready on time! (hopefully)

What do you think?

 

[zeasar]

Where is everyone? As I type this there's this big cheer from the workers and highfiving everyone.
And I just found out that i cant attach photo here on my iphone

 

[allmIne]

Photos to come later!

 

[eleanorrigby]

Photos of Belfast Apple Store

Here's a photo of the new Belfast Apple Store - and the free t-shirt!

 

[Wized]

Photos from Launch

 

[zeasar]

I'll add some of mine. all photos taken on my iphone.

The guy in the orange shirt (dont know what their title is) was trying to get us to do Mexican waves, think he gave up after 2 failed attempts.

And I couldnt get a good shot of the glass stair case.

 

[allmIne]

As promised! Was a great morning, around 200 or more in the queue, and met some great people!

Ended up with a keyboard, mouse and a family pack of Leopard

My friend was the first to get served at the genius bar, and I'm happy to say, got a brand new mac book battery

andy.

 

[NATO]

Impressive store, I didn't realise Apple had so many fans in Northern Ireland! Picked up a Keyboard and Battlefield 2142 while I was there, along with the free T-Shirt. I'm really glad Apple finally have a presence in Northern Ireland, it's been a long time coming!

 

[plinden]

I used to work on York St (about 10 years ago) and walked along Church Lane every day to and from work. There was nothing like this then.

Of course, there are three Apple Stores within 15 minute's drive of me right now, and another five or six within an hour's drive, so I'm not really missing anything.

Edit: so all you got was a T-Shirt? I remember when Apple offered grab bags at store openings.

 

[allmIne]

It was a great day

Plinden, Apple generally only offer grab bags at flagship stores and other very large store openings, iirc. I could be wrong.

I'm bloody happy with a t-shirt, though! The staff were super friendly; one said that although they were all pumped up by managers before we came in, they really were that excited. That said, at least one of the videos on youtube of a store opening have exactly the same high fives and screaming, so it's most likely store opening policy; I loved it, personally. Once the reality of hitting Applecare targets sets in, who knows, but the staff were great; very helpful.

My second visit was a few hours later, when I went to get Leopard (I know! Only getting it now, shocking ) and the fella who greeted me at the top of the stairs, and another who'd served me, both remembered me. Little things count.

I'll definitely be back; hell, I'd visit a Dell store if it meant not having to following the gf around House of Fraser

andy.

 

[zeasar]

Im still on 10.4.11, not gona get leopard till i get my hands on the revised mini (if they are not being drop by apple then).

The store is great, but too crowded this morning, the air in the store was getting pretty stuffy from all the customers. Need to go there some other times, probably get my hands on the new nanos if I get my alpine ipod head unit sold.

 

[allmIne]

Im still on 10.4.11, not gona get leopard till i get my hands on the revised mini (if they are not being drop by apple then).

The store is great, but too crowded this morning, the air in the store was getting pretty stuffy from all the customers. Need to go there some other times, probably get my hands on the new nanos if I get my alpine ipod head unit sold.

So true; it was almost unbearably hot in there. One of the staff mentioned the air conditioning had had an easy time of it recently, and needed to get used to it

I've just completed the leopard install; doing it on my dads mac now. At first glance, it doesn't appear groundbreakingly different..?

andy.

 

[zeasar]

@allmine: I take it that you are one of the first patch of people that was let into the store? I made it there at 8:35 this morning and was "lucky" to have gotten to the very back of the top line, and the people behind me had to start queueing up at the lower level. I was gona see if anyone was using the iphone app iFob but sadly I was too far away from Apple's wifi range at the start.

Oh and, I got ONE apple staff who came to hi5 me, all the others turned back before they reach the end of the line.