A detailed report last week a shocking change coming to the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max in 2025, namely a return to an aluminum frame, giving up both titanium and stainless steel for whatever reason after just a few generations.
Today, a Weibo leakster debunks that whole rumor, claiming that not even going back to stainless steel but to aluminum for the Pro models would be too much of a blow to Apple’s reputation, considering how many attempts it has made to us convincing that both stainless steel and Titanium is much better than aluminum.
And that is all true of course. Not a large but certainly not small part of Apple’s introductions of its new Pros in recent years have been devoted to materials, and how first stainless steel and then titanium give them an oh-so-premium feel. So there’s that.
But Apple has also been a very profit-driven company lately, so we wouldn’t be surprised if it simply goes back to aluminum, which is cheaper than both stainless steel and titanium, to make a little more money per phone. of course pretending it never said anything about the superiority of the other two materials.
So at this point it’s still quite unclear what will actually happen, which isn’t surprising considering how far away we are from the launch of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. Do you think the choice of material for the frame is important? And if you use a case non-stop, does it really matter? Let us know.
Source (in Chinese)