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The right place to be at the iPhone 4s launch in Malaysia was the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. Maxis’ iPhone 4S launch drew crowds of enthusiastic buyers. When we visited the KL Convention Centre – for the record Mobile World was also at DiGi’s launch and we did not get an invite for Celcom’s launch - we saw hundreds of people, maybe even more, lined up to buy the iPhone 4S.
We were, of course, interested to see who was first in line; the person who would by default be the first Maxis customer in Malaysia to officially buy an iPhone 4s. Of course, there has been online chatter that at least one DiGi customer had got his hand on an iPhone 4S even earlier, before the actual date designated by Apple, but we won’t go there.
The unsung hero of the day at the Maxis launch - and we will get to the point why he was the unsung hero in a while – was 16 year old Leonard Chan. This young student from Cheras was first in line and he turned up at the launch venue a whopping 12 hours before the launch. The second person in line, according to Leonard, came three hours or so later.
What drove Leonard to such heights of passion to become the first in line? It turned out that he was doing his uncle a favour. The uncle, a publicity shy Mr Chang, had asked Leonard to stand in line for him. Leonard told Mobile World that he decided to come early because he was worried that he might miss out on getting the iPhone 4S and he was truly surprised to find himself first in line.
He’s not only the unsung hero – we’re not even sure if it was finally he or his uncle who will go on record as being the first purchaser – Leonard also has a heart of gold. He was doing this favour for his uncle for no other reason than simply helping a relative out. He’s not expecting or getting any reward from his uncle.
And no, Leonard is not yet an iPhone user though he has other Apple gadgets. That points, we think, to a strong possibility of seeing him first in line again then the iPhone 5 is launched.
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