Apple Wins $1 Billion Patent Case
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Multi-touch was a patent they absorbed and the work there already could understand all 10 fingers at once. Unibody is known as CNC machining and used in the air/auto industry as well as others. They innovated processing the bodies fast enough for large-scale consumer manufacturing, as it is an involved process.When you read my posts, I never take away from Apple for their packaging, marketing, refining. Their innovation of HOW to bring existing things to market. My core argument is when they make false claims as to what they feel they have created. I won't repeat examples again as my posts are too long already.
As a side note, unibody/CNC is a VERY wasteful process, carving out a solid block of material. You can smelt the remains, but with aluminum, it becomes a poorer grade of material. Odd for a company who claims to be so green. The air industry only does it as casting makes for weaker parts. Sony made a unibody case by casting the block before machining, rather than using raw material. Still strong enough, and better environmentally.
If anyone knows if Apple came up with a good plan for those scraps, I would love to know. I hope (assume) they did.