I highly doubt that Apple is now pioneering new innovations in the realm of metallurgy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science http://en.wikipedia.org/w

I highly doubt that Apple is now pioneering new innovations in the realm of metallurgy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science Do you really think a company like Apple doesn't have any materials engineers? I don't know what the ratio is of the materials they develop in-house compared to the rights they buy from smaller research companies or institutions, but materials science is definitely a field Apple knows a lot about.