iMacs of the future could be made entirely of a single sheet of curved glass, if a recent Apple patent is anything to go by. According to the patent, the iMac could have a radical design overhaul with a foldable glass keyboard deck, dual trackpads, and more. The patent also shows a possible design of Mac accessories that allow for a MacBook to dock directly into the glass surface to allow for a larger working area.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Future-iMacs-could-be-made-entirely-of-glass-and-resemble-a-glorified-MacBook.451346.0.html
do apple pay someone for all the things in their devices that are not invented by them? lets say for clamshell laptop idea?
No idea what this has got to do with Macbooks. Macbooks were never glass, instead Asus experimented with glass in their Zenbooks for a few generations, but I don't believe a glass model is still in production.