Why Apple’s Jony Ive likes to build products out of aluminium
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If you follow Apple and the development of Apple products closely you have probably heard of Jony Ive, a genius designer, a very good friend of the late Steve Jobs, who’s work is behind all recent hardwares of Apple, including iPhones and MacBooks.
Jony Ive is very much obsessed with using aluminium in all Apple’s products. In the begining it was not so easy to implement, and they had to overcome a lot of technical issues before it became possible to build products such as iPhones and MacBooks which have an unibody alumium frame which is entirely built from one piece of aluminium.
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