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Grand Opening of Newcastle’s Apple Store

Eldon Square West Wing Opening Day

I missed out on the grand opening of Newcastle’s very own Apple Store today due to being stuck at work.  So I had to resort to the Twitter collective of Newcastle to help share the buzz of opening day.  So due to the fact that I raped and pilliaged there content from opening day I first should give credit to the guys that were there.

Thanks to @ramshaw @Legion11 @purplelime @Kerry350 and @paul_a_smith for keeping me in the loop.

The frustration of not being able to make it to the store had me watching over twitter to keep in touch with how things were unfolding and also gauge how quiet the shopping centre I work in was going to be.  I work in the Metrocentre the closest shopping centre to Eldon Square and where the Apple Store was opening.

While the Buzz of the new Apple store was at its highest I decided to judge how much so compared to where I was.  The tweets near by give for most interesting viewing that basically confirmed what I already suspected.  Only an Idiot would have been shopping in the Metrocentre today.

The Volume of tweets in and around the Apple Store.

Eldon Sqaure

And this was the Metrocentre…

Metrocentre

I should complain to much… I’m heading there myself tomorrow.

The time is almost upon us in Newcastle

Back in September 2009 Sam ( @purplelime )over at Fruitbytes.co.uk gave the people of Newcastle the heads up about the retail store us northern geeks were waiting for.  Our very own Apple Store.

With less than six days till opening I took a quick look back at the original floor plans of Eldon Square’s new south wing to remind me what I was getting excited about.  I’m now a little worried about what we may get from our new Apple Store.

I’m not going to write anything off till I get into the place myself; but if you look at the size of the Apple Store unit and compare it to the Top Shop unit opposite it. Top Shop normally have some good size stores so it would suggest that the new Apple Store in comparison will be of a good size.  If however you picture the size of most of the stores in Eldon Square (if you have been there and are able to do that) you will be aware that they aren’t very big.

Take a look at this digital walk through of the new wing of Eldon Square.

The size of the units shown don’t seem to be that big.  What if our new Apple store is just a baby version of what you would expect from an Apple store?  I’m not saying that I expect a London or New York sized store; but I do want a store that will do Newcastle justice.

I guess we will just have to wait and see.

What do you think the Apple Store will bring to Newcastle?

Are you planning on visiting on opening day?

Do you care?