Apple renews exclusive rights to Liquidmetal in consumer products into 2015

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  • Reply 21 of 33
    knowitallknowitall Posts: 1,648member
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    Originally Posted by Apple ][ View Post

     

    Besides a tiny SIM tray, Apple hasn't really made much use of Liquidmetal yet.

     

    They obviously have bigger plans for it, or they wouldn't have extended the agreement.


    That isn't necessarily the case.

    Apple could simply prevent others from using it.

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  • Reply 22 of 33
    asciiascii Posts: 5,936member

    It seems like a real shame to me. A potentially valuable new metal, 2.5x stronger than titanium and 1.5x stronger than stainless steel, and Apple buys exclusive rights and then just sits on it and does nothing. How much better off would humanity be if lots of people could experiment with it and try to come up with creative uses?

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  • Reply 23 of 33
    icoco3icoco3 Posts: 1,474member
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    Originally Posted by SpamSandwich View Post

     

     

    That might be a restriction set by the licensing company, not Apple.




    And a good idea...why license rights for many years and be left with the company doing nothing with it.  My thought is Apple does have plans for it because to have the rights just for a SIM ejector tool is silly.

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  • Reply 24 of 33
    tallest skiltallest skil Posts: 43,388member
    Originally Posted by ascii View Post

    How much better off would humanity be if lots of people could experiment with it and try to come up with creative uses?

     

    Why are you pretending they can’t still do that?

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  • Reply 25 of 33

    Many of the posts here assume that Apple and LM are just sitting around.  In fact, the little public information that I have seen has shown that they have worked on many improvements, most of which are needed for any commercial use of LM, in composition and manufacture of parts from LM.  LM just settled a lawsuit with a casting company (VPC) and amended their agreement with them that frees LM from using them as their only contract manufacturer – does this have anything to do with Apple, I don't know.  As mentioned above, LM came out with a new formula that doesn't use Beryllium, a toxic element, in their amorphous metal – sounds important if you want to work with green Apple (remember they got MacPros yanked from Europe over toxic metals).  Apple and LM also filed patents a while back on improved methods for making sheets of LM – will this lead to some use for Apple, I don't know.  Bottom line, there has been much research and development going on and it is clear that LM has not been ready for wide-scale use in Apple or any other products.  I think now they are ready and the fruits of their labors will soon become evident.

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  • Reply 26 of 33
    dysamoriadysamoria Posts: 3,430member
    hill60 wrote: »
    It never seems to age, here is the ejector tool I've used since 2008 on thousands of iPads and iPhones, it's a bit scratched and bent with no sign of any corrosion.

    400

    I have many paper clips that show no sign of corrosion after many years. Like, every one I've ever handled.
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  • Reply 27 of 33
    ipenipen Posts: 410member
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    Originally Posted by larrdavid815 View Post



    Great, so what does this mean for LQMT tomorrow morning? To the moon!!!!

    Just the opposite.  LQMT is about to be delisted from NASDAQ. ($0.2 last quote)

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  • Reply 28 of 33
    asciiascii Posts: 5,936member
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post

     

     

    Why are you pretending they can’t still do that?


    I'm not pretending, I genuinely believed that is what "exclusive" meant.

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  • Reply 29 of 33
    hill60hill60 Posts: 6,992member
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    Originally Posted by dysamoria View Post





    I have many paper clips that show no sign of corrosion after many years. Like, every one I've ever handled.

     

    Handled the same paperclip on a daily basis for almost six years?

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  • Reply 30 of 33
    jj.yuanjj.yuan Posts: 213member
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    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post

     

    Maybe by then Apple will create a product that uses it. :no:


    It feels right to make the iPhone shell with it. Maybe there will be an iPhone 6m this year, or next?

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  • Reply 31 of 33
    robmrobm Posts: 1,068member
    I can't wait for my next liquid metal SIM card ejector tool! /s

    Septembers right around the corner, grasshopper ! Not long to wait.:D
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  • Reply 32 of 33
    benjamin frostbenjamin frost Posts: 7,203member
    ascii wrote: »
    It seems like a real shame to me. A potentially valuable new metal, 2.5x stronger than titanium and 1.5x stronger than stainless steel, and Apple buys exclusive rights and then just sits on it and does nothing. How much better off would humanity be if lots of people could experiment with it and try to come up with creative uses?

    Just as all those phone manufacturers were so creative in their development of the smartphone in all those years before 2007…
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  • Reply 33 of 33
    benjamin frostbenjamin frost Posts: 7,203member
    jj.yuan wrote: »
     
    Maybe by then Apple will create a product that uses it. :no:
    It feels right to make the iPhone shell with it. Maybe there will be an iPhone 6m this year, or next?

    Apple should call this year's iPhone the iPhone 8. Why? Why not? 8 is a better number than 6. And it will throw down the gauntlet to Samsung, who will no doubt be hoping to being out their Samsung iS6 or something as closely worded to the iPhone as possible.
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