Admittedly, if you yourself aren't a flight sim junkie this may not be the most attractive controller in the world, but there's something to be said about a company spending three years studying, crafting, and refining a controller to make it virtually indistinguishable from the real thing.
The device independence afforded by the SIM has been one of the chief advantages of GSM networks around the world over the past twenty years, and we'd hate to see Apple succeed in killing that off in favor of some sort of locked-up iTunes nonsense, but let's be honest: if anyone could pull off that kind of coup, it'd be Cupertino.
Alastair Sim, director at Universities Scotland, said having four Scottish universities in the world's top 200 was a "recognition of the strength of Scotland's higher education sector".