One of those later SNL skits had the Will Ferrell character come out with a big 80s style cell phone, and when teased about it by the "girls", insisted that " 'big' is the new 'small' ". Insert your own iPad jokes here.
As to why the micro SIM has to be smaller than the mini SIM, if it is to be backwards compatible but physically distinguishable and not forwards compatible from the mini SIM, then the pin end has to have the same pin placement, and the width, thickness, and placement of the locking notches on the sides have to be the same or close as well, so a shorter length is pretty much the only option. Generally speaking, you want the working part of your electronics (as opposed to the part you regularly interface with) to do more in less space, too. On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:00 AM, COMPUTERGUYS-L automatic digest system wrote: > From: b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> > Subject: Re: New SIM, but improved? > >> 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? > > Betty ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
