Ridiculous, if you have gift cards then you should honour them. You can't just retro-actively undo the possibility of using gift cards already bought for the purpose of gifting someone any apple device, including the iPad.

I'm betting they'll be redeeming a lot of gift cards for their cash value because of this stupidity.

I never really realized just how much of a control freak Jobs really is, imagine the CEO of a big company second guessing his entire marketing department by sending out email directly to customers.

Talk about delegation skills...

This also explains to me why Jobs' health is monitored like it is of prime importance by major Apple stock holders, it probably is of prime importance, if Jobs believes that stuff like this should be decided by him then Apple is pretty fragile.