Yes, it's easy to say it will never work. I believe if we commodify the hardware, like the PC era, then we can create a platform which is both cheap to innovate

Yes, it's easy to say it will never work. I believe if we commodify the hardware, like the PC era, then we can create a platform which is both cheap to innovate for, more environmentally sustainable and more commercially competitive. It can work. A commercial challenge is that everyone wants the slim integrated thing as a faux-fashion accessory and there's significant costs and there are power and waterproofing concerns with mobile hardware which are technically more difficult to guarantee with a modular architecture. OTOH, as consumers increasingly demand a right to repair and get sick of forking out for the same phones with slightly better specs every 2 years, it might just begin to work out...