Question for you, gorgol:
Let's say you are correct. Apple and Engel and LQMT are all together, working on a new whizbang Liquidmetal Widget Thing that all of our 14 year olds MUST HAVE.
To produce this Widget Thing, Apple will need 500-700 Engel machines and will place them in Arizona, as you have also suggested in the past.
If this is the case, why then, would Engel be marketing its LQMT machine and seeking orders/contracts for it?
Wouldn't we think that Apple, being the dictatorial and secretive entity it is, would have told LQMT and Engel to do absolutely nothing till said secret Widget Thing is under production?
Engel's payoff for being a good soldier? Millions and millions in machine orders - from Apple. It could care less whether it ever makes a contract for 3 machines ...... no?