The Apple Store, London, UK

I was in London (UK) this afternoon for a meeting and had some spare time, so I decided to pop in to the Apple iPod Store near Oxford Circus. The last time I visited the store (around Christmas time?), and boy does it seem to have changed….

On my last visit it was pretty much the same as the previous 2 visits, i.e. it was a store selling Apple Mac computers and iPods. I would now guess that around 50% (possibly more) of the floor space is dedicated to the ubiquitous iPod. They had everything you would ever need for an iPod, plus some things I didn’t even know were made for an iPod. Walls and walls and walls of accessories.

There were three or four Apple TVs (hooked up to Sony screens), a lot of MacBooks (I didn’t see many MacBook Pros), a few mac Minis and I can only recall seeing a couple of Mac Desktops. I was really surprised at the lack of desktops, I know the line is getting a ‘bit-long-in-the-tooth’ now, but there lack of on-floor presence was noticeable. This has got me thinking – and so I reached for my ‘Apple Rumour’ sheet… (see earlier post)… Is this a sign that the desktop line is due to be refreshed very soon?

One other thing I noted was there were still a lot of boxed copies of OS X 10.4 on the shelves…. read in to that what you want..