Apple betrays loyal customers with iPad's micro-SIM slot

Once again Apple has sold out its users to the greedy telcos with the choice of a non-standard SIM card slot for the iPad'ss mobile broadband access.

Amid all the iPad hype, very little attention was paid to the fact that the 3G versions use the new micro-SIM card format. It's not even mentioned on Apple's iPad spec sheet. Jobs only mentioned it in passing, right after bragging about the fact the iPad will be sold unlocked. It's the ultimate cynical act - boasting about removing an anti-competitive software restriction while simultaneously introducing a far more cunning hardware restriction. Jobs didn't even attempt to justify the use of micro-SIM whilst on stage within the protection of his Reality Distortion Field, knowing there's no possible justification for using micro-SIM cards except to hand control over to the telcos. I'm keen to see how the rabid Apple fanboys attempt to justify an action so ruthless that not even Jobs himself tried to defend it.