At one point early into its development, Apple was considering using a curved glass display, a deposition from a former Apple designer reveals. Douglas Satzger is currently the VP of industrial design at Intel, but held several jobs at Apple between 1996 and 2008, such as Industrial Design Creative Lead and Industrial Design Manager. The deposition -- evidence in the ongoing Apple v. Samsung trial -- has Satzger saying that Apple had "strong interest in doing two pieces of shaped glass," seen in a prototype identified as 0355.
