Apple stocks for a major product, and always sells out in a few hours. Is this a marketing ploy? Even stranger, I just phoned a store in Brea, who said they never even received their supply of iPad 2, and yet there is a line of people waiting outside their shop for them. Is this symptomatic of our times, that people will stand in long lines for hours, to relieve the fever? What a coincidence that the iPad shares a common moniker with a home.