Why I didn’t pre-order the iPhone 6 or the iPhone 6 Plus

“Happy pre-order day, everyone!” Peter Cohen writes for iMore. “I awoke this morning to find a Twitter feed full of announcements from friends and colleagues sharing details on what model they’ve reserved. I’m sitting this one out.”

“I had been leaning towards pre-ordering the iPhone 6 and being done with it, but I decided at the last minute to wait. Because I’ve seriously been thinking about getting the iPhone 6 Plus instead,” Cohen writes. “And that’s when I realized that paper cutouts might help me figure out if the iPhone 6 Plus would fit in my pocket, but they weren’t going to give me a clear idea of what actually wielding either phone on a daily basis is going to be like.”

“I want to actually hold the phones in my hand before committing to getting one. I want to use them both for a little bit to see what I’m going to be more comfortable with,” Cohen writes. “This year, Apple’s decision to offer two distinctly different models presents us with a unique problem as iPhone customers — choice… Sometimes choice can create uncertainty, as it has for me…”

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