yes, iPad is cover by local warranty. which means that if you brought in US, you only can claim in US. For those who plan to buy those "imported" units, bear in mind about this terms. The seller can tell you until you can claim it in the heaven, but just go to apple.com read yourself.

Good luck for those choose to have it on hand 1st, if you faced any overheat problem or WiFi problem or even apple is decided doing any recall, make sure the guy who sell it to you provide the service to send back to state to claim your warranty!

I found some of the seller in LYN does sell iPad and mentioned that international warranty or singapore warranty. think 100time before you believe on it. Every ipad can easily identify their origin location by checking the serial number, i don't think any support can able provided to you time being in this region...

that the sad case here. you are familiar and with friend, but how about other people? haha... is good to said that you can claim but not all the people here, right?