Project Ara seemed quite impractical/naive at the time. Myself (and some people I trusted) dismissed it as yet another Google flight of fancy. This thing thoug

Project Ara seemed quite impractical/naive at the time. Myself (and some people I trusted) dismissed it as yet another Google flight of fancy. This thing though, I can kind of see it working. Basically: The pressure to minimize volume + weight is way too high for a mobile phone to become modular. Then add recent requirements like IP68 ratings. In a laptop there's still some breathing room for modularity. And noone expects a laptop to survive an accidental drop into a pool.