For those choosing to go to the store to pick it up, why? Some reasons I can think of include:
- You don't work from home and don't want to risk a package coming when you're not home to sign for it
- You don't want it to or can't have it come to work for some reason
- You want the comfort of having a specific time (at the store) when you can get your phone
- You, for some reason, have to have it at the absolutely earliest possible second on Friday, and the store pickup accomplishes that
- You don't want to risk getting a damaged phone at home and then having to deal with that headache
- You don't want your wife/husband/girlfriend/mistress/dog or other cohabitant to know
- You need the store's help in transferring to a new phone
- You're trading in and need to go to the store to most easily accomplish that process, or simply don't want to put your current phone in the mail (FedEx, etc.), given some of the horror stories that are out there
- You want to be part of the "launch day social experience" at an Apple Store
What else is there?
I'm just wondering what would incentivize people enough to endure the absolute zoo of being at an Apple Store on a launch day.
Full disclosure: mine are being delivered at home because there is no way I want to endure the zoo experience, plus I have no reason to avoid the extreme convenience of home delivery.
