"The cost savings are tremendous"
Naturally this wont be reflected in a products price I suspect.
Faster AND lower cost fabrication. So how much of the cost savings will be passed on to the customers? Oh, who am I kidding. We'll pay because it will be marketed as a state of the art manufacturing.
Okay, let the early adopters pay more (those fancy new machines ain't free). After the first 10 million or so iPhones/iPods/iPads I'll expect lower prices.![]()
Turn it one way and it's a shiny Apple logo. Turn it another and it says, "Eat it, Schmidt."
I can't wait for the day to see that Apple products are designed AND made in the USA.
Merkel, a former steel and plastics industry executive and major investor in Liquidmetal, notes that the company's technology must have been extremely enticing to Apple for it to pursue a deal with Liquidmetal. Merkel calls the company "flaky" and "broke for years", as it has struggled to meet its payroll obligations while producing prototypes free-of-charge in attempts to land major deals with other companies.
Keep in mind - Liquid Metal will solve some problems and create some new ones - it is all about engineering trade offs.
So HTC and co are ramping up their Xerox production so that they can keep up with copying I hope?
But given that Apple releases a phone only once a year...
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So HTC and co are ramping up their Xerox production so that they can keep up with copying I hope?
I've seen some YouTube vids on this alloy... man, cool stuff. There's one that compares the hardness of Liquidmetal with regular Titanium using a couple of metal spheres. It's crazy how long the Liquidmetal keeps the ball bouncing.
For Clarity: Apple contracted an EXCLUSIVE contract for use of Liquid Metal's technology for consumer electronics. Let the wannabes copy that!
You have a long wait in front of you - lazy, entitled, unmotivated, benefit demanding American workers will keep production in Asia for many years to come. Our artificially "pumped" / credit driven consumer economy is falling apart - as it should.
The global economy has dawned - we are going to suffer for years to come.