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Google's project ara seemed like a good step in that direction, a smartphone with modular and replaceable components. But it died. Anyone have lessons learned
by stadium 5y ago
Google's project ara seemed like a good step in that direction, a smartphone with modular and replaceable components. But it died.
Anyone have lessons learned from that experiment?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
- hytdstd 5y agoMaybe simplest is best: Google, the company with pockets deep enough to develop and market Glass, couldn't see the business proposition in Ara.
- OnionBlender 5y agoI don't know why that project died but I'm not surprised. It reminds me of how smart phones used to have removable batteries and were easier to replace parts for but many consumers preferred to buy slim phones that couldn't be opened.
- paulryanrogers 5y agoWhile true the loss of removable batteries wasn't in isolation. Apple led the charge with a product offering a lot of other advantages, then once they had a moat of network effects and walled garden, it caught on elsewhere.
- OnionBlender 5y agoYeah, I used to work for BlackBerry and watched the whole thing unwind in slow motion. BB focused on the wrong things and had shit software. (And I say this as a person responsible for writing said shit software)
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoThe lesson is that cheap mass produced Chinese shit wins every time over complicated hacker dreams. https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-apple-europe-report-1223548/ https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-apple-europe-report-...
- denton-scratch 5y agoYou sent me to a mobile link; ironic. I happen to be browsing on a GPC.