Apple continues to research and protect the idea of an iPhone that features a curved touch-sensitive screen wrapping around the entire device.
Detail from the patent showing one form of wraparound iPhone display
Detail from the patent showing one form of wraparound iPhone display
Apple files countless patent applications every year, and it is granted something like countless minus one. Just because there’s a patent, just because it’s been granted, it does not follow that Apple will make whatever the idea is — except sometimes, surely, it must be very keen.
Perhaps especially now when Apple has been granted a patent — that it has already been granted. This happens when the company puts through an amended version after the original is granted, and very often it’s close to impossible to spot what has changed.
