So you’re not blessed with an Apple store in your home city—tough cookies. Since Apple stores are closing at 2pm on Friday anyway, perhaps you should make other arrangements to snag your new phone. AT&T has updated their Find-A-Store webpage up to locate nearby AT&T stores that will be selling the iPhone starting Friday at 6:00pm.
https://gizmodo.com/apple-store-to-close-at-2pm-not-4pm-on-friday-the-29t-272549
