A few weeks ago, I told you about a company that is offering a 22-karat gold version of the iPhone. Yes. for a mere $69,995, you can strut about town with a gold phone pressed against your ear.
Well apparently, the folks at Apple want to get in on this action. Maybe they are worried the profit margin isn’t going to big enough on the $1,000 iPhone X. Whatever the reason, the company has reportedly filed a patent for making ‘enclosures for electronic devices’ out of hardened gold. According to the CNBC report, the process will create a stronger metal suitable for enclosing Apple gadgets.
Since 18-karat gold has low hardness, Apple has an idea for hardening the precious metal into a crystalline form by mixing it with other metals and putting it through a special process of mixing, rolling, heating, cooling and aging the metal. t could also be used to process 24-karat gold, the patent said, and in combinations that have more or less of the total weight in gold.’
The patent application says, ‘The disclosure provides gold alloys with improved yield strength and improved hardness. With such an improved hardness, the gold alloys can have very good scratch resistance and improved durability for use as enclosures for electronic devices.’
This post was published at Schiffgold on NOVEMBER 3, 2017.
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