- It's rare that stock completely bottoms out. There's a lot of tea-reading that happens with reseller stock levels near new product launch. It happened with

- It's rare that stock completely bottoms out. There's a lot of tea-reading that happens with reseller stock levels near new product launch. It happened with the iPad too: http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/news-gadgets/ipad-stock-shortages-ipad-2-release-date-announcement-coming-5592/ http://www.gforgames.com/gadgets/news-gadgets/ipad-stock-sho... Either way, I disagree with you. 1) if you expect that you wouldn't be able to get an iPad at all. 2) if you think the pre-low-stock talk was any different for iPad than any other refreshed Apple product. - Estimates for 500,000 units are from Analysts who are notoriously inaccurate. The original iPad sold 300,000 units opening weekend. So if you were Tim Cook, what's your reasonable "not limited" number to shoot for iPad 2 launch based on the original sales? 2x? 3x? 10x? We'll likely find out how close you and Apple's numbers agree as the launch numbers will probably be announced.