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Re:Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts by richie5um on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:42AM (#12411317)
Yep. My only surprise is that they took them this long to stop working on it.

I can understand why this could be a useful internal experiment. But, clearly, some people at Google expected this to be a viable product. Baffling.

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Re:Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts by coldtea on Friday September 02, 2016 @06:36AM (#12412092)
>Yep. My only surprise is that they took them this long to stop working on it.

Where they really working on it?

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Re:Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts by pjmlp on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:33AM (#12412562)
There was an update at this year's IO, but some of the team leads already had other descriptions on their twitter accounts.
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Re:Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts by nipponese on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:50AM (#12411348)
Naa. It was an obvious PR play from the start. An "open" phone platform?? Give me a break... But music to the ears of all those "open source" zombies.
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Re:Google shelves plan for phone with interchangeable parts by richie5um on Saturday September 03, 2016 @03:53AM (#12418225)
If so, seems like a rather bad PR _stunt_.
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