Phone Home For an iPhone and Avoid The Rush on the 29th

Here’s a thought: buy the new iPhone on the 29th from the Apple Online Store, if you just have to get one…like myself!   The diehards will surely be flocking to a store near them, come June 29th in hopes of getting their hands on the new iPhone.  But, will it really be worth their time and effort?  Will these nerds even leave the store with a shiny new phone, come Friday?  I bet there will be quite a few people turned away, and told to come back another day, or that they will have to try and buy one direct from Apple anyway.  Apple has stated on their web site that the new gadget will be available online at the Apple Store, at the exact same time as in the stores.  So why not wait a few more days, and have it shipped?  This way you may actually get one, and save yourself a big headache.  This seems like the safest bet to me.  Sure it won’t get to you until early next week, but you may actually get one this way.   It is almost certain that they will sell out quickly in the stores around the country.  If you factor in Apple’s Free Shipping, and Free signature gift box into the mix, the choice seems pretty obvious to me.  I did a little detective work, and found when you add an iPod into the Apple shopping cart online, One-Day shipping and Two-Day shipping wasn’t that bad at all.  Two-Day shipping was only $10, and if you can’t wait that long, One-Day shipping was $16.  Seems like a bargain compared to what people will go through on Friday.  That is to say, that the iPhone will be in stock, and will ship out with in 24 hours, like the iPod!  I quite possibly may even get my hands on one faster than the diehards in the stores.  While they’re waiting in long lines, wasting their time and effort, in the hopes of scoring an iPhone, I’ll be in the comfort of my home, clicking my way to a new iPhone.  E.T. phoned home, and I think I will phone home for one also.