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Apple opens doors to France's first Apple Store

appleinsider.com — Thousands flocked to The Carrousel du Louvre on Saturday, the scene of France's first Apple Store opening.

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  • EllimistX, on 11/09/2009, -5/+41"It's 6 AM. Quick! Open the doors!"

    "But I am le tired..."
  • PotentPotables, on 11/09/2009, -17/+45That has be the smuggest place on earth.
  • fluidfoundation, on 11/10/2009, -1/+24FIRE ZE.... I mean OPEN ZE DOORS!
  • jrm125, on 11/10/2009, -1/+23je-pod
  • dvsbastard, on 11/10/2009, -4/+23You know your business is successful when opening a store in a foreign country is somehow considered newsworthy...
  • ryanonfire, on 11/10/2009, -1/+17Well zen have a nap AND OPEN ZE DOORS!*
  • fluidfoundation, on 11/10/2009, -2/+14Greeter: Go and boil your bottoms, you sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called "Apple Store" you and all your silly english Knnnnnnnigts.
  • bizzywho, on 11/10/2009, -1/+11dubya tee eff, mate?
  • MacParrot, on 11/10/2009, -0/+9How can anyone digg down Monty Python references? Stupid gits.
  • BossKey, on 11/10/2009, -2/+11Over 10 years ago France was once an Apple stronghold, because one of Apple's highly visible executives was Jean-Louis Gassee and he did a lot to push the Mac in France. This was back in the pre-OS X days, when Macs ran on Mac OS 9 and before.

    The thing is, the pre-OS X Macs did crash all the time. If you were talking to French who grew up with those Macs, their experience may not have positive. The Mac presence in France went on a decline after Louis-Gassee left, although I can still name people I know in France who use Macs.

    Mac OS X is pretty rock solid, it's just another high-uptime Unix workhorse OS now, so today's Macs should not have a crashy reputation.
  • PaintFreak98, on 11/10/2009, -1/+9For some reason, France and Apple seem like a great combination...
  • emecks, on 11/09/2009, -3/+11Zut alors, le pommeStore!
  • madwh, on 11/10/2009, -2/+8WTF, France didn't have an apple store? At first I read Apple opens doors to France's fist App Store, I thought, wow, a real life App Store.

    Also, "It replaces the Pocket-PC based solution currently in use in stores which opened prior to Paris."
    I'm pretty sure when I went to the apple store a few days ago in bellevue the guy that checked me in had the same thing, no more bulky weird devices, just an iPod touch.
  • powitsjj, on 11/10/2009, -2/+7Apple isn't very popular in France, we had these exchange students come from France one year. I asked them what brand of computers they used. None of them thought mac's were good computers, unlike here, where you get more of a 50/50
    they just said "Ew, mac's? no they crash all the time"
    so I guess business is going up now?
  • specialK16, on 11/10/2009, -0/+4Well, actually they did replace their point-of-sale devices with a modified version of the iPod Touch.
  • Hecubus452, on 11/10/2009, -2/+6I spit in your general direction, you stoopid american swine.
  • theuniversal, on 11/10/2009, -0/+3A store not run by Apple that sold only Apple products?
  • powitsjj, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2@macParrot and philbert I live in the northeast USA at the moment, so everyone is pretty rich here. Most of them just buy apple computers because they have the money to do so and they need another fancy thing to put in their fancy home. and yes macParrort was right about the students, at my school if you ask anyone its probably more like 60% pc 40% mac, but it's close.
    I was just interested in the fact that NO ONE out of the french students had anything good to say about apple.
  • TheUngod, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2I hope George Clooney never visits or there will be much destruction.
  • MattBD, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Considering how protective the French are of their language, I'm a little surprised they weren't ordered to rename themselves Pomme when trading in France.
  • BossKey, on 11/10/2009, -3/+5How about Jet Propulsion Labs? Looks like more than 50% Macs on the table there helping to land on Mars...
    http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/people/20040103_Sp_EDL_ ...
    Unix-based OS = good for rocket scientists
  • MattBD, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2But of course he went on to found Be. Wonder if BeOS was unusually popular in France as a result.
  • TheUngod, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2You can attract 10,000 frenchmen by putting cheese on a hairy woman. Seriously, it's not that hard.
  • inactive, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2Yeah, I've been there. Was it's "Apple Centre" It's on Rue Simon Le Franc in the 4th arrondissement and independent dealer not an Apple Store.

    Pics here:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/stumax/156286982/
  • shinkou, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2All your apple are belong to us.
  • MacParrot, on 11/10/2009, -1/+3I think he was referring to students that he saw, not the general population
  • fluidfoundation, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2MOTHERLAAAAAAAAAAAAND!
  • Vanderkeif, on 11/10/2009, -4/+5Bonjour! Ye cheese eatin' surrender monkeys!
  • tjlyttle, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1dugg for pic 6/7 from the link to the new easy pay touch gallery
  • TheSpook, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1France has an Apple store?! I, in my moderate Midwestern town, do not have one.

    Give me an Apple Store and Ikea, or give me death!!1
  • Elranzer, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Not in every store. This must be a bleeding edge new thing. I was just at an Apple store last week in NY and they had the PocketPC p-o-s devices.
  • BossKey, on 11/10/2009, -2/+3@MacParrot - well even if he's referring to students, I'm in a university town and when I go to some of the coffee shops around here Macs are often the majority. I think the real question is why Philbert has such a personal bias against Macs.
  • inactive, on 11/10/2009, -1/+2Is there something special about these stores?.Why are they so thinly spread out...
  • fquednau, on 11/10/2009, -1/+2Oh gosh, didn't know the distinctions were that fine-grained. Has Apple already secured patents on selling Apple Products? Oh well, back to my Lenovo work-horse...
  • Philbert, on 11/10/2009, -1/+1That would make sense. Still hard to believe.
  • siamdive, on 11/10/2009, -2/+2Freedom Apple fritters!
  • MarkyBear, on 11/10/2009, -2/+2It's impressive when you can impress the French.
  • Elranzer, on 11/10/2009, -4/+4They still use PocketPC-based point-of-sale devices in the stores.

    The iPhone OS is just for consumer devices. Windows CE is for real work and business.
  • powitsjj, on 11/10/2009, -1/+1yeah, that's why i was surprised, because I'm used to os x. Thanks for the info.
  • Homerr, on 11/10/2009, -2/+2Microsoft, are you taking notes on how to open a store?
  • inactive, on 11/10/2009, -2/+1"What? No concert tickets? Thousands of people at a store opening and no concert tickets? Impossible!" - Steve Ballmer
  • fquednau, on 11/10/2009, -2/+1What the hell was the store then that I visited in Paris 2007, which only had Apple Products?
  • BossKey, on 11/10/2009, -2/+1Fetchez le Mac!
  • Philbert, on 11/10/2009, -3/+2No, nothing speccial, that's why there're so few of them.
  • Nephersir7, on 11/10/2009, -5/+4You also know your business is successful when that store opening attracts about 10,000 people without introducing any new product.

    source:http://translate.google.ca/translate?prev=hp&h ...

    ""Last night I could not sleep," admits Matthieu, 33" (Obviously, you spent the night under the cold & rain outside the store )

    "Or Jürgen Klotz, a German 37 years came specially from Stuttgart, and Gary Allin, 62, who does not regret having made the trip to California because "this location is truly spectacular!".
  • Philbert, on 11/10/2009, -3/+2Pretty obvious, they're poorly made, ugly hardware and even more ugly software, WAY over expensive, extreme lack of decent software. In fact as an artist very little of the software I use is available for mac and what little there is is always the last to get updated and 90% of the plugins aren't available on the mac, essentially making the mac version of the program crippled. Not to mention the extremely smug attitude the company and many of the users have. I run OSX on one of my computers, it's very uncomfortable to get around and use altogether, so I don't use it for anything.
  • getsome2k, on 11/09/2009, -11/+10It's official, the Mona Lisa is cool, but not nearly as cool as the Apple Store.
  • Philbert, on 11/10/2009, -4/+250/50? I'd love to know where this is that a whole 50% of people think macs are good so I can be sure not to go there.
  • lnxfi, on 11/10/2009, -4/+1C'est blanc et a un je dans le nom. L'acheter si je peux aller en vacances vous le corniaud.
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