Today is the “D-day” for iPhone 4 release. Many orders have already started arriving by mail as of yesterday, but today is the pickup day for Apple stores. 
The question is how interesting is it? Do you go early and wait for store open and hope the lines are not too bad or that you are not featured in the news pictures of the many hordes that could be standing in line? Is it akin to a Star Wars convention? Or does one just pass the time waiting until the end of the day and amble in hoping that by then the lines are gone. Definitely the new iPhone is very interesting, and having a new gadget is always a weekend thrill. But how much effort does it really warrant. I have to say in my defense that I am not up this early biting at the bit until the store opens. But being that I’m already up due to commute necessity nags at the possibility of venturing down to the store for the 7 a.m. open. Not to mention since I’ve never been it might be a neat experience. Until the decision is made however, it’s just a another day in Appleland …
This may disappoint many as there seem to be a lot of people waiting specifically for the new white version. Unfortunately the pre-order requires checking with AT&T Wireless, which at this time is mostly down due to the pounding of the masses on the poor proxy gateways that lead to the AT&T Wireless website. Yet again the AT&T partnership will frustrate the masses of Apple fans, and make all of the the work by the Apple systems admins to make sure the website experience is zippy clean, rather useless as many sit and watch the spinning busy (and sometimes timeout) issues of AT&T. For now hopefully, the evil spinning cursor of death will end soon and life can move on …
