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This is not marketed at me. My phone buying thought process: Does this phone have the software I care about? Are apps tested to work with my exact device? Sold

• anigbrowl 13y ago
  I will certainly get one. Think about it like a little prototyping computer platform. I don't know if I'd make it my main phone for the reasons you describe, but I would definitely like a portable battery-powered computing device with modular capabilities, like a little Raspberry Pi that can go in my pocket instead of being stuck on the desk.
• stackcollision 13y ago
  Once this is out, you are paying a premium to not deal with modules by not getting one. It's a $50 phone you can swap components in and out of as upgrades become available. To me, that's infinitely better than buying a new $300 smartphone every other year. But there's also a second appeal. Right now, phones are impenetrable black-boxes. You get what the manufacturer thinks you want. The reason I think a modular phone will become very popular is the same reason the AR-15 is the most popular gun in America: because you can play with it. You can swap parts in and out depending on what you need. "Oh, I'm going hiking today? Better stick my extra-big battery and wide-field camera into my phone." "Apple's putting a new zillion-byte SSD in the iPhone 9Q? Well good thing I can just buy the zillion-byte module for my modular phone instead of having to buy a whole new one." And a million other examples.