Did a mini interview by Kenny Chee of My Paper (我报) regarding EpiCentre taking pre-order for iPad. I have negative views on this as EpiCentre did not do a great job last year when they handle the pre-order for iPhone 3GS and end up those who pre-order with them got it later than SingTel customers. It will be fine if you pre-order the iPad Wi-Fi version but for the iPad 3G + Wi-Fi version, there might be a chance that it will be given to telecos first.
my paper (我报) is Singapore’s first free chinese newspaper, launched on 1st June 2006, is designed for bilingual, young adults aged 20-40, who have been exposed to Western and Chinese cultures and want their voices to be heard.
Here is a snippet of the interview within the article:
Web engineer Lester Chan, 26, said he would rather buy the iPad from Apple directly. He said he did not want to make a pre-order without a launch date in sight and miss out on the de-
vice if another retailer starts sell- ing the iPad earlier.
You can read the full article here.
Thank you Kenny if you are reading this.
To be fair to EpiCentre, they are not collecting deposit yet. I guess they will only start collecting deposit when the official date is announced. So there is no harm in pre-ordering now. And I think all the reseller will get the iPad at the same time.
I wonder why is there a need to pre-order. I doubt it will run out of stock on the first day of launch. Although I might be wrong since this is Apple.
Gallery is pulgin?
nice