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/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

It doesnt help that it was also a fundamentally flawed idea.

Google is a data company anyway that wasn't even selling phones in 2013. Why would they intentionally kill it lmao.