Why Your Next iPhone Won't be Ceramic
A few weeks ago, a post on Quora set the Apple echo chamber on fire by theorizing that the next iteration of the iPhone would ditch machined aluminum for ceramic. Underpinning this post was a series of conclusions extrapolated from Apple patent filings that indicate the ID team has been working (in Japan) on some modifications to ceramic slurry casting, as well as an omnibus patent attempting to lay claim to any electronic gadget with a ceramic enclosure. To say that I disagreed with this conclusion would be an understatement (there might have been some snarky back-n-forth on Twitter), but it was difficult to draw a conclusion given the real lack of data.
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