Ratinder (my wife) and I headed into Leicester Town Centre to check out the new Highcross Shopping Development which has been part of a massive regeneration of Leicester. To my surprise I noticed that we had a 
brand spanking new Apple Store. Obviously we had to take a look inside and check out the MacBooks and iPhone 3G purely from a competitive standpoint!
Apple really has got itself sorted and even I thought Leicester had somehow arrived because it now has an Apple Shop! Damn, I didn’t want to feel like this but it’s hard not to be excited by the bright shiny things they have on Display.
The Visitor Guide that I got handed when I went into the Store was interesting as it had a list of Workshops on things like the iPhone, Mac OS X Leopard, iMovie, iPhoto, etc. How about the "Apple Youth Workshops" where families can learn how to compose songs using GarageBand.
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September 6th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Linda and I took a trip to the Apple Store on Regent Street in London earlier this year… Wow! Linda is a Mac-fan so was at home, but I was blown away by the size of the place and everything that was going on. It’s a good time to be a fan of the fruit!
September 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
– Yoda
September 6th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
I was thinking what a “Windows” Store might look like? What would you have in it? Maybe, XBox360, Zune, Surface …anything else?
September 11th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Windows store?
Interesting idea!
Other stuff
Microsoft hardware (mice, keyboards, media extenders, etc)
Windows Mobile (with various contracts?)
Obviously all the consumer software such as Office, Works, Streets & Trips, and Games for windows (flight sim?)
Home Server
They could also have areas of the store that show off the online stuff (msn/live, messenger, hotmail, search, etc etc)
Sounds like a plan..let me know when you get it started Vijay?