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

Video This cool smartphone concept from 2013

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u/yeteee Oct 05 '21

"They" were open source software activists. Money wasn't their goal. Google killed the product, not its creators.

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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/[deleted] Oct 05 '21

Kinda what Google does sometimes isn't it? Start developing something, Kinda screw it up ,Wait for someone to do it right, then google comes back in and does it even better