Patents: all-glass iPhones, Macs and Apple Watches

Since 2017 and the iPhone X, Apple has once again used glass for the backs of its smartphones, while the manufacturer has long favored aluminum. The material inspires the engineers of the Apple who, in a patent unveiled by Patently Apple, have it all – be it for the iPhone, the Apple Watch and even the “trash” Mac Pro!

The patent protects multiple ways of creating all-glass cases, which in the process allows information to be displayed all over the place around the chassis: at the front of course, but also at the back and why not. on the slices.

The patent contains some interesting ideas on the design of such frames, which require working with flexible glass. As for this concept of Mac Pro:

For the all-glass iPhone, it just feels like Pif Gadget :

This patent and a other on the same subject also show an Apple Watch with a glass frame, but with a design that strongly evokes the one who has ran this summer before Apple puts the stop to it by presenting the Series 7.

As always, a patent does not spring the product and nothing says that future iPhones, Mac Pro or Apple Watch will have these shapes or be all glass (case makers are ready).

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