From what I've heard, project ara was started by motorolla before phoneblocks announce their idea. Motorolla was working in secrecy, and this work transferred t

From what I've heard, project ara was started by motorolla before phoneblocks announce their idea. Motorolla was working in secrecy, and this work transferred to google when google bought motorolla. When the phoneblocks people became very high profile, the project ara people decided to reach out to them and let the phoneblocks people that project Ara was already trying to bring a similar vision to reality. Phoneblocks had no engineering ability, only a great vision and an appealing (though impractical) design. So Phoneblocks threw their support behind project Ara.