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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by friendofafriend on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:34PM (#45554982)
Was recently reading about Project Ara, the modular smartphone project by Google/Motorola [1]. Would have liked to see a few more iterations of the idea. Something more customizable than what we have today without having to take the phone apart.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara

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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by stavros on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:48AM (#45556546)
It would have been very thick, too thick to compete.
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Re:Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before the... by hulitu on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:27PM (#45607434)
> Was recently reading about Project Ara, the modular smartphone project by Google/Motorola

This was a huge idea. A lot of companies tried to develop modules for it. This could have been the modern equivalent of the PC. But Google killed the child, before it could say "mama".

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