Apple’s first retail store in Germany, “Apple Store, Rosenstraße,” opened today, December 6, 2008 at 10am local time and was greeted by a massive crowd.
Adresse:
Rosenstraße 1
80331 München
089 242145 000
Panorama photographer Willy Kaemena has posted a 360-degree VR image of the crowd via panoramas.dkhere.
Check out many, many more grand opening photos (exterior and interior) via Flickr here.
More info about Apple Store, Rosenstraße via Apple (in German) here.
Apple Store, Rosenstraße grand opening:
MacDailyNews Take: What other company can achieve such crowds for a retail store opening? None; only Apple.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Hans. N.” for the heads up.]
Wow! Now that’s a crowd. What a beautiful store.
Like other European events, they’re actors.
Oh, puh.
Some are actors and other are trolls… Everything can be seen in this world…
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Big deal. In a little while Microsoft will open a store just down the street and it will have special areas for Zunes, Vista and the ‘Exchange Zone’ where you can test drive Redmond’s latest e-mail, contacts and calendar tools and ‘Office Korner’ where you can explore their magnificent productivity creations. Cool!
I already pre-registered for the Active Directory camp. Awesome!
I’m a PC.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Looks like an average day at an Apfel store in the States. Similar demographic, too.
Why is Apple stock in the crapper?
Looks like the Black Friday Walmart crowd that trampled that poor store worker to death. The real Apple Geniuses will being staying away from the doors.
Ja, das ist gut!!
They must have had the entire membership of German Equity on the payroll then. FIlming must have ground to a halt for the afternoon.
Why is Apple stock in the crapper?
Haven’t you noticed? The economy is circling the bowl along with Apple’s stock.
For all purposes you can’t currently value a company by it’s stock price. Survivability is today’s metric, and Apple is one of the few companies that’s actually profitable and not laying people off.
Not every business will be around tomorrow, much less have their stock come back. Apple will.
Not often you see a crowd so big they dislodge the bricks in the building opposite
That’s why Apple is something quite different to anything else. Phenomenal!
Interesting to see a guy near the glass front carrying a Nikon D3x – they only went on sale a few days ago..
Don’t know about being actors, unlike the MS adverts they actually look like they mean it.
Everyone on the street is a paid actor/actress personally sent by Steve Jobs to fool investors that Apple Retail stores are doing well. Those T-shirt boxes have nothing in them except rolled up toilet paper. I’m certain I saw those same people at every Apple Retail Store global opening.
I’m also certain there’s a secret passage in all Apple Stores that allow fake customers to go in, change their clothing and disguises and then sneak out only to come back again like an endless chain. Scan the faces of this crowd and then attend the next store opening. You’ll see the same faces.
WS isn’t fooled at all by any of this fake crowd stuff. Look for Apple’s share price to go back down to $90 on Monday. Why? Because paid fake actors eat into Apple’s profit margins, that’s why.
I just want to hang out under the glass stairs in the summer time.
Was in Munich over Thanksgiving and saw the big Apple, the rest was boarded up. Smaller in population and visitors, but the area would be equivalent to Times Square in NY, or the Magnificent Mile in Chicago. I suspect the store will do very well. Saw lots of Apple products in use over there.
Interesting, walked down is the Istor (sp) and came across a store that looked like an Apple Store. Turned out to be run by a vendor, but basically adopted the Apple Store retail philosophy. Hope both can coexist.
Meanwhile, here in Berlin, we’re patiently waiting . . . . . .
Wow that pic reminds me of the Zune opening day or BlackBerry Storm or Android or wait that was just a nightmare dream I had.
/* “Looks like the Black Friday Walmart crowd that trampled that poor store worker to death.” */
Ah no… wrong demographic. They’re with the “I’m PC” crowd.
This is scary really, as a long time apple fan to finally see the world catching up is one thing, but this ersatz religious fervour is what nightmares are made off. With the masses comes a capacity for extremeness and madness. I once saw a piece of graffiti many years ago that said ‘99% is shit”. This generally holds true i have found in most things, so the closer you get to that the more worried you should be.
“Everyone on the street is a paid actor/actress personally sent by Steve Jobs to fool investors that Apple Retail stores are doing well.”
When the stock’s in the toilet, a few tens of thousands sent on actors and other unemployed people to line up is money well spent.
yes muffin man, we are waiting … for years and years
Note to self: Buy more AAPL stock.
Munich Putsch 2008!