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Apple Researching All-Glass iPhone and Apple Watch Designs
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Wow... way more negativity on this thread than I expected. This will take what..? at least a decade to become reality? BUT it is inevitable. IMO, The Expanse is as accurate a look at our future as you'll find, at least in a SciFi TV show. All of the "IT" tech the characters in that show have/use will come to be... in some form or another. Personally, I'm excited, and not the least bit worried about shattering or heat disapation... there's a whole lot more inventing left to be done before those become concerns that need addressing.
Definitely curious about the implications, like durability / fragility, reception performance, etc. I tend to trust metals for enclosures more than glass.
hah! brilliant
Just like every futuristic device in movies that are entirely transparent...apparently no one ever drops anything in the future.
Seeing as iPhones are basically all glass now anyways with the exception of the metal band, I doubt heat dissipations would be very different if they went all glass.
Not so. The iPhone 5 was wonderfully light because its internals were less dense and it came with a smaller display. It was also physically smaller and thinner. The weight difference between iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 was about 10g after the 8 added a glass back and wireless charging, which is hardly going to be noticeable. Most of the weight these days are from the much larger battery and heavier internals. For example the iPhone 5 had a 1400mah battery vs a 2400mah battery on the 13 mini.
Add to that... all these movies have giant wall-sized monitors with oddly monochrome imagery... and you can see people walking behind it because it's transparent glass.
Why would I want to see through a screen? That sounds like a nightmare!
I'll stick to solid monitors, thank you!
USPTO intern must've been asleep when this was granted since it's obvious based on prior art with edge and back screen displays on phones so this is just an extension of that. It'll likely end up getting revoked like Apple's multi-touch, slide to unlock, bounce back, etc.
If I can't properly protect my device from damage, especially broken glass, I'm out. Not even gonna give it a chance. What I would do is buy the last model and just keep it till they change the design back to something normal. There should be an audit as to how much money apple makes on people replacing their broken devices. Not gonna play that game.
Since when is easily breakable products an innovation? Only a BEAN COUNTER would come up with such nonsensical ideas and call it innovation.
Clearly Tim Cook did not watch any TIMEX commercials from the 1970s/80s or he thought a licking was something completely different?