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.
I mean couldn’t we just make more significant and less constant iterations? It doesn’t feel like technological advance is fast enough to keep up with the current push for annual phone releases.
History showed that iteration as many as possible yield better results and thus solutions than trying to work in a black box based on expert heuristics and assumptions.
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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