I was never very optimistic about Ara. In general, modular electronics is a good idea in paper, but a terrible one in practice. - It comes with quite the price

I was never very optimistic about Ara. In general, modular electronics is a good idea in paper, but a terrible one in practice. - It comes with quite the price tag, adding connectors everywhere gets expensive fast. - Some interfaces are very tricky to modularize, RAM & CPU are very closely linked, and it’s very hard to protect them from ESD. - Which generally points you to the PC solution, don’t protect it, enclose everything and standardize. There’s also the more “business” part of modular electronics. PC parts are only cheap through massive volume, but building a modular phone requires you to (mostly) build all of your parts. The only way to make it feasible requires more than one device using the same modules, which defeats the uniqueness of the device. Laptops are way more feasible just because that modularization is already on the market, and you don’t need to build your own RAM SODIMMs or SSDs.