Apple suggest Standard for Smaller SIM Cards to Make Even Thinner iPhones

Reuters said that Apple has submitted a suggestion for a standardized SIM card design smaller than the micro-SIM presently used in the iPhone 4 and iPad, with the new sketch having obviously won the backing of French carrier Orange. The design would reportedly admits  Apple and other companies to adopt the card to design smaller and thinner devices.

With accomplishment of the standard and technical issues still to be worked out, devices using the smaller SIM card will probably  hit the market next year.
Apple made waves last year with Statements that the company was seeking to implement embedded SIM cards, a step that would delete  some of the power of carriers over phone distribution. While the GSM Association and some carriers expressed interest in the idea, threats from other carriers to withhold iPhone subsidies reportedly resulted in Apple backing away from the technology for the time being.
It is not clear  whether the newly-proposed standard is related to the embedded SIM technology talked last year, but it displays  to more likely simply be a smaller evolution of the removable SIM cards in use today.

via @macrumors