14 DAY TRIAL // The Apple Stores are a key part of Apple's strategy, offering potential customers hands-on experience with the products and changing attitudes towards the Cupertino company's offerings. So far, in the UK, Apple has stores in London's Regent Street, Birmingham, Sheffield and Manchester, and it seems that more are on the way.
Mark Rogers, Apple managing director in the UK, is tight-lipped about the possible locations of future stores, but it is likely that Glasgow and Edinburgh will be seeing their own stores once Apple has obtained prime retail locations.
Chris Braithwaite, a director at real estate company Cushman & Wakefield, says: 'Apple wants to open in the 20 best retail locations in the UK. It has told us just to get on and find the space,'" Graham Stewart reports for The Scotsman.
In Glasgow, it is thought that Buchanan Street would be a prime candidate for an Apple store, but wherever the final location will be, it is clear that Apple Stores would be competing head-on with Scotsys's own independent retail stores.
The UK and, indeed, Europe is important to Apple, where it has pushed Dell aside to become the number 1 computer in the educational sector, with a market share of 15.2%, a significant achievement seeing as how in the US, Apple is still second to Dell.