Do you want a courier to deliver a plain brown box to your house or do you want to walk out of that Apple store with a shiny box that says "Hey guys look what I've just bought - arn't I cool" taking the long route through the mall to your car, maybe having a stop for coffee ("Would you mind if I put my shiny new mac right here while I drink my coffee? Yes, it looks great doesn't it and it's all mine!") before slowly taking that box out of the car allowing the neighbours to see before you get it through the door. No contest!!
60 minutes. I would LOVE to be 60 minutes away. One of the hardships one has to endure living in God's Own County I suppose. (That's Yorkshire, BTW)
I'm going to tie these two thoughts together.
I could be wrong…but I'm going to guess that you're not a "city-person" (which is perfectly ok…I grew up in a VERY rural area myself).
Not sure if you live in York or outside of York, UK.
I do understand the "fun perspective" you were probably thinking from in the first quote above (so don't get me wrong with what I'm about to say).
But all that visibility of
"Hey look at what I just bought at the Apple Store." Can be dangerous as well in many larger urban areas. Strolling out of the local Apple Store/Shopping Mall with a $1500-$2000 brand new Apple computer (says it right on the box)…then getting coffee…then walking thru a large shopping center parking lot to your car…puts a VERY large bullseye on you (especially amongst a very materialistic crowd in a busy shopping mall area).
A BIG target for would-be opportunists to either "jack you up" right in the parking lot & steal that nice new Apple computer from you (which Applecare doesn't cover)!
Or maybe they follow you all the way to your home…and steal that computer from you right in front of your own house...or somewhere along the way in a very quite part of the roadway between the Apple Store & home.
Yes…very likely a rare sort of event. But I'm sure it has happened. My strategy if picking up the computer at the Apple Store would be. Purchase the computer…and make a bee line straight to the car…making myself (and my shiny new computer) as "invisible" as possible. And…maybe checking my rear view mirror a couple times on the way home!!!
- Nick