
This story is part of 9to5Mac’s series celebrating Apple’s 50th anniversary.
Aluminum was once a cheap metal to consumers, primarily used in soda cans, kitchen foil, cookware, and window frames. It also lived a double life as an industrial material used in aerospace. It was simultaneously a disposable commodity in everyday products and an engineering marvel that helped get humans to the moon.
That is of course until Apple decided to make aluminum their signature material, in…

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