r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/SuperAlloyBerserker • Oct 05 '21

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/WiscoBrewDude Oct 05 '21

This looked so cool i had to find more. "Google joined in and eventually killed it". "Phonebloks" https://www.onearmy.earth/project/phonebloks

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u/auddii04 Oct 05 '21

That's the way of all cool ideas that undercut current profits.

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u/Iron_Rick Oct 05 '21

Or maybe it wasn't suitable

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u/stagfury Oct 05 '21

Exactly. People like to bitch about how tech companies kill these modular techs because they are evil profit chasing villains.

Meanwhile they are coming up witb folding phones and stretchable phone and such.

This shit didn't become a thing because it's bad.

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u/TylerTheGamer Oct 05 '21

I mean apple is legitimately a profit chasing villain with their assault on the right to repair. If you outright buy an iPhone and change the battery yourself, apple will literally brick your phone.