Apple Opening New Store in UK This Week, Posts Job Listings for Two New German Stores

As a Mancunian I am used to having to reluctantly accept Brummies' delusions of superiority, if only based purely on population statistics. However, this usurping by the admittedly fine city of Leeds is a new one on me.

Look, I corrected it for you.

Leeds, situated in the north of England, is Britain's fourth-largest city (after London, Birmingham and Manchester), making it surprising that Apple has waited this long.

At last an Apple store in God's own country, West Yorkshire. It opens on my wife's birthday too so I may take her there for a treat. Being from Yorkshire we of course won't go in and actually buy anything.

As a Mancunian I am used to having to reluctantly accept Brummies' delusions of superiority, based purely on population statistics. However, this usurping by the admittedly fine city of Leeds is a new one on me.

Look, I corrected it for you.

I logged on just to make the exact same comment. iManc.

At last an Apple store in God's own country, West Yorkshire. It opens on my wife's birthday too so I may take her there for a treat. Being from Yorkshire we of course won't go in and actually buy anything.

Fly in class there! You must be grateful theres an Apple Store in Yorkshire, I thought leaving the County was frowned upon? :cool:

I think we must be confusing the Americans on here with the casual inter-county discrimination :D

Populations depend on how you count them.

By authority Leeds is indeed the third biggest with a population of 750,700 while Manchester is only the ninth largest with just 502,900. Although on this scale the entire county of Cornwall is fifth because it is covered by a single local authority.

By population of just the city itself, excluding suburbs with their own separate identity, Leeds is fourth at 477,600 with Glasgow in third. Manchester is fifth with 465,900 residents, only 400 more than Bristol.

The only scale on which Manchester does beat Leeds is when counting the urban area, which effectively covers surrounding towns and cities where there is a continuous urban spread.

On that scale Greater Manchester, with a population of 2,362,849, is second only to London, while West Yorkshire is only fourth with 1,616,608. Of course that does mean counting the likes of Oldham, Stockport, Bolton, and Rochdale, and even extending into parts of Cheshire and Lancashire to make up that area. For West Yorkshire extends south and west to include Bradford, Huddersfield, and Wakefield, and the towns in between.

The urban area is clearly not a good definition for a city because it does include so many other places that are known and identified as distinctly separate places.

So in short, Mac Rumors are correct to consider Leeds the third biggest.

Populations are all the most recent ONS figures.

At last an Apple store in God's own country, West Yorkshire. It opens on my wife's birthday too so I may take her there for a treat. Being from Yorkshire we of course won't go in and actually buy anything.

It's also my wife's birthday on Thursday too, she's from Yorkshire as well, and we were going to be at her brother's in Leeds on Thursday too (but plans got changed) so I would have taken her there for a treat too - but I'm from Lancashire so would have bought something :p

Small world eh?

About time! No more drives over to Sheffield...

I'm feeling the ayeYorkshire love in this thread!

Nice to see a new Apple store that's only a short drive away for me.

Fly in class there! You must be grateful theres an Apple Store in Yorkshire, I thought leaving the County was frowned upon? :cool:

I think we must be confusing the Americans on here with the casual inter-county discrimination :D

There was already one in Yorkshire, but Sheffield is SOUTH Yorkshire, you might as well be in Humberside ;)

They are having to rename the products for then to sell in Leeds though:

t'ayePhone
t'ayeMac
t'ayePod

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1by0-nkKOTs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1by0-nkKOTs)

You can always tell a Yorkshireman ... but you can't tell him much :p

/ducks and runs