Friday, April 18, 2014

Google Project Ara - modular phone

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/google-project-ara/

This has been around a while, but just got demod.  Ironic that the screen broke. What's the most common part which fails for folks... yeah, screens.

I wonder if Google will do better with this than their other hardware devices.  The Nexus one was a little bit of a flop (as much to do with HTC's hardware as anything).  Google TV didn't really go anywhere.  Google has a history of hardware failures.

And getting people onboard with a hardware ecosystem like Apple has takes years.  Will they have the might and persistence to stick with it?

After all, they sold Motorola in just 18 months.  Wouldn't Motorola have been a great component for this?

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