Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

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Also, the material advantage for Apple is what, exactly, on using LQMT as a case? Stronger, so people have to buy fewer of them over time? Waterproof, so people have to buy fewer of them over time?

Apple likes to make their consumer products completely unservicable by end users to drive replacements over repairs. A sealed, overmolded casing would be ultimate realization of that philosophy.

At the same time, if Apple didn't value strong, durable, aesthetically pleasing materials, we'd all still be using plastic laptops. Apple will sell Liquidmetal iPhones for the same reason Rolex makes watches out of gold.