Tell us you have not noticed the trend where everything electronic gets smaller every year. Is it not natural that as part of this process key internal parts get smaller too?
Back to SNL-- Remember their skit about the shrinking Nano? That was a joke when the Nano 'improved' and became microscopic. The shrinking SIM is a bad joke too. And there's NO reason to make the new technology smaller than the old one, especially since the US device is exactly 7.24187928741 times larger than my smart phone. Logically, according to Tom, the SIM should also be 7.24187928741 times larger in the iPad compared to my phone.
When I worked at a newspaper designing and typesetting ads, there was a rule that you don't use any text smaller than 5 point type. Anything smaller than that was considered illegible, and only suitable for disclaimers on car ads. <g> Now the rules are that there are no rules. Medicine has important warnings in 3 point type--for old people, yet. Legal documents got so bad that there had to be legislation to make it legible and in plain English.
Smaller isn't necessarily better, otherwise the iPad wouldn't be larger that many netbooks and tablets. So what's with this nonsense of defending SIM cards that are too small to insert or remove without dropping them like a contact lens that you can't find in a pile rug. My brother rides a unicycle, but uses his bicycle most of the time because smaller isn't necessarily better. Do you drive a microcar like a Ligier or Aixam?
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