Apple Store App Now Offers Same-Day Delivery

The world of e-commerce has really pushed the boundaries over the by few years, and forth with super-efficient shipping times, companies like Amazon have looked to offer such wonders as same-day commitment. Now, thanks to Postmates, the Apple tree Shop app will have your order of a new Mac or iPad sent to yous within hours of ordering, provided that y'all reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.

If you're not upwards to speed with Postmates, information technology's a company that has found a niche for delivering whatever and every kind of product to your door in a timely style. From McDonald'south to Starbucks, i can have all manner of items sent to them through the Postmates service--including, before now, Apple products.

For, yes--Postmates has been delivering Apple goodies to customers for a while now. But the fact that Apple tree has broiled ane-solar day commitment into the Apple Store app just adds to the convenience of it all.

The downside, nevertheless, is that you'll need to live in the San Francisco Bay Area to take reward, and besides, your local store volition need to stock any product it is you're after. If non, you'll have to stick with ordering online or going to pick your shopping up like most others, although hopefully, same-day commitment volition expand across the United states and beyond in the almost future.

If you meet the requirements for this new delivery service, you'll see an option when purchasing that says:"Delivers Today within x hours." According to Engadget, the waiting fourth dimension could exist anywhere between one and four hours, but that's still not an eternity, and is considerably easier than having to get to an Apple Retail Shop and pick it up yourself.

There is, as you lot would expect, a fee for all this. Simply if you're not the patient type, information technology seems a worthwhile premium to stump up, and given the prices of some of Apple's height-end hardware, what's a few extra bucks when y'all're potentially spending thousands?

Apple has however to officially unveil the service however, but the guys at MacRumors have already used the limited society service, and their delivery driver noted that the one-day system is in play equally of today.

This is the latest in a series of updates and improvements that the Apple Store app has seen lately. Merely a few days agone, the app was expanded to a slew of new countries, including Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates, and late, Apple tree also added Touch ID back up and two-factor verification.

Would you lot like to run across same-day delivery reach your location? Or is an overnight wait part of the excitement of ordering a new gadget?

(Source: TechCrunch via Engadget and MacRumors)