Would you trade in a flexible iPad for one that collects dirty fingerprints?
I'm taking my BENT $1429 iPad Pro to the Apple Store
According to a supply chain report, Apple may be working on a titanium iPad, which would be stiffer and more durable than its aluminum models. Titanium certainly sounds cool, and offers some properties that aluminum can never match, but it also has some significant drawbacks.
"Titanium is definitely stronger than stainless steel and aluminum, and will be much more resistant to scratches," Kaitlyn Rayment, technical advisor and CEO of gaming computer maker WePC, told Lifewire via email. "However, titanium is not very resistant to oily, smudged fingerprints. There are reports that Apple is researching a thin oxide surface coating to reduce the effects."
Apple is a master of aluminum. When it uses metal to build a product, that metal is almost always aluminum. Every Mac, the iPad, the non-Pro iPhone, AirPods Max, even the keyboards and trackpads are aluminum in some form. Over the years, Apple has gotten really good at using it.
