Will you be running around letting everyone and their dog play with your new, expensive iPhone willy nilly, or will you 'show' it to people without letting them touch it?
I tend to be pretty paranoid when I buy some new expensive electronic device so I think I'd be one of the "I'll show it to you, but HANDS OFF" kind of people...at least for a while. Maybe later I'd let people handle it as long as it's directly above a pile of soft pillows or something.