Replies to post #116162 on Liquidmetal Technologies Inc (LQMT)

[rige]

Good article,

This tells us... well, not much. It shows that the brass at Apple has been interested in Liquidmetal for longer than they've let on. It also tells us that they've found someone, somewhere, capable of turning out millions of small pieces of the stuff. Dr Peker notes that the reason Liquidmetal hasn't taken off in consumer electronics likely has less to do with the inherent promise of the material than a "lack of a suitable manufacturing infrastructure." Nobody's truly thrown their weight behind it, so it's simply been too expensive to make. But that's not an insurmountable problem: All it would take is a company with patience, money and leverage over hardware manufacturers. It would take a company like... Apple.

And that Man is Prof. Li. Already Building the BMG Infrastructure.

But the most realistic outcome of this purchase is, to use the word of the day, subtle. Like any other good material, Liquidmetal will be asked to disappear into a product at the service of design. An iPhone with a Liquidmetal antenna, for example, wouldn't be marketed as a Liquidmetal iPhone—it would be marketed as a slightly better iPhone.

And let's say it finds its way into the hinges of our MacBooks, under the assumption that it will loosen or wear less quickly; or that it makes up the body of the next iPod Shuffle, as cartoonishly tiny as that's sure to be. These products will, if Liquidmetal's various boosters are to be believed, be the kind of subtle improvements on their predecessors that we usually take for granted. It may be hard to notice.

Soo Damn true !
Apple’s products are ‘magical’ reliable thanks to the BMG inside.