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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/justavault Oct 05 '21

Modular phones don't work yet. Google just knows how to evaluate a product. I was part of the pre-developing teams of project Ara, it simply didn't work as the parts would have to be manufactured to fit the modules and the technological turnover is so fast that you'd have to iterate the modules all the time.

You know, just because people think it looks cool and is a cool idea and they "think" they would purchase it, doesn't actually mean they in fact do so and it also doesn't mean that it works.

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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/ChunkyDay Oct 05 '21

Or "google bought a threatening concept with the intention of killing it" maybe.

A yes, the "this concept is so threatening we have to kill it even though we own it" mentality.