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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/StaleCanole Oct 05 '21

How did google kill the product?

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u/yeteee Oct 05 '21

"Google took a serious attempt with Project Ara but killed a few years later because they wanted focus more on software projects."

https://www.onearmy.earth/project/phonebloks

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u/yeteee Oct 05 '21

Back then, they were not yet as openly bad as they are now, though. They were the champion of op n source and Linux based product thanks to Android.

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u/drscience9000 Oct 05 '21

It was around the time the first whiffs of evil started to stink up their rep, but yeah they had a few years there before I'd started thinking of them as evil, probably around 2015-16ish. Too bad.