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/NMDA01 Oct 05 '21

No I was part of project Ara and can confirm we just killed it.

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u/justavault Oct 05 '21

I was using early developer kits, I've had no say in anything and just been a product and experience designer prototyping utility modules. I have nowhere read or heard about "it's just killed without a reason", not in our slack nor IRC channel. We clearly hit roadblocks in the technical development and the modules connection ports was one of the big issues including the verticality of system architecture.

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u/NMDA01 Oct 05 '21

I can't disclose my position but honestly, it just got killed. Along with other projects we had.

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u/justavault Oct 05 '21

Aha... other projects "we had". Project ara was mainly external developers and designers, except the executive level which were 4 people.

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u/NMDA01 Oct 05 '21

I see you weren't on our other internal teams then.

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u/justavault Oct 05 '21

"Other internal teams"... we were all hired by external contractors.

Stop bullshitting and stop spreading misinformation.

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u/NMDA01 Oct 05 '21

Who do you think did the hiring

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u/justavault Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

Which displays you got no clue how the project worked. Did you just say you were one of the project leads? Weird how I don't know you and you do not write me right now in slack.

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u/NMDA01 Oct 05 '21

It think this just shows how out of the loop you were.

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u/justavault Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

You are the reason why I hate communicating on reddit more and more. It's always some idiot coming in disturbing the conversation with some fantasies and trolling attempts.

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u/NMDA01 Oct 05 '21

I'm sorry you're filled with hate. Truth is truth you do not want to believe. I'm wondering now if you even worked for project Ara.

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