Macitynet has posted a gallery of the grand opening of the Apple Store at ROMAEST mall, the first Apple Retail Store in mainland Europe.
“This morning a huge number of fans, probably around 800 coming from all around Italy (and from other European countries) formed a long queue, first ouside the mall entrance in a parking lot, and then just out the store entrance, patiently waiting for the doors to open,” Macitynet reports.
“After the countdown went to zero, the Apple Store employees lined up in a row cheered customers coming inside,” Macitynet reports. “The store gave away 1000 commemorative T-shirts – running out of them within the first hour.”
View the gallery here.
LoopRumors offered live coverage of the event in Rome. View the photo and video updates here.
Apple Store, Roma Est info: http://www.apple.com/it/retail/romaest/
Hey, looks like one of them Apple store thingies!
90,000,000 people in Germany.
1/3 the population of the US. All in the size of the state of Oregon.
Number of Apple stores in Germany?
Zero.
Yea, FSCK YOU John Scully, loser, Darth Vader, Judas ass.
Hanz, I can’t imagine it will be that way for long. I believe Apple is planning to open up between 30 to 40 new stores this year up from their current about 170. I think about a third of those new stores will be overseas. This was the first mainland European store..
They are very picky about their locations and they put real time into where they open stores. Germany seems like an obvious location, but how and where, and lots of details, n such.
Did anyone on here go to this store opening? Anyone have a comment on how it went?
Twilightmoon, there were so much people awating from 2 am of yesterday!!!
the bad thing was that there weren’t any Apple TV avaible to buy, only one to see 🙁
Paris next, please!
I know what I’ll be doing ‘when in Rome’…
TT:
” know what I’ll be doing ‘when in Rome’…”
Visit the colloseum? or perhaps the vatican?
Ancient fountains and statue? Architecture your thing?
Perhaps the amazing local cuisine?
sweet! now lets see stores in sweden, france, germany, spain etc
Twilight
Whose got time for all that crap-they have an APPLE STORE!!!!!
(actually, I would rather just rent a villa room in Tuscany)
looks like any mall in any town USA. It that a good thing?
Glad, however, to see Apple expanding.
Meanwhile, can we get an update on those Dell stores? How are they doing