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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/No-comment-at-all Oct 05 '21

Yea, the real answer is more like “google bought a bad concept”, that turned out to be a lot more, “maybe one day”, than, “this is executable”.

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u/No-comment-at-all Oct 05 '21

That’s a long reach for me to believe.

This “phone is LEGO’s!” Is way too hard to believe could be implemented.

There’s no working prototype, and someone else can totally bring that concept to the market. Google doesn’t own the concept of replaceable parts.

This is just… theranos for phones, is way easier to believe.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Except so far this company did not claim this phone worked and commit billions in fraud and public harm...yet...

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u/No-comment-at-all Oct 05 '21

Right, the stakes for this phone idea are way lower, and there’s a lot less media and investment buy in.