I had to go to the 'world famous' Bullring today and found myself walking past the soon-to-be-opened Apple store. It has a steel frontage but the windows were blanked out. By listening carefully I could hear the sound of drilling from within. There was no letterbox, so I couldn't shout into it, "Come on, you bastards, get a move on." I got home to find an email from Apple in my inbox inviting me to visit on 29 April. No mention of goodie bags, though. Just a free t-shirt for the first 1400 through the door. Given the amount of dosh I've spent on Apple in the last 3 years that seems piss poor to me. When the London store opened the first 300 got goodie bags worth over £750. You can keep watch over the Apple store via web cam, just in case they open a few days early. It's on the extreme left, adjacent to the top corner of the diamond pattern on the floor.

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