Google Project ARA
Google Project ARA
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Expensive Legos for adults that will constantly lose the small pieces. No one wants a piece together phone.
- i wood.pango
- the real improvements have stopped, to upgrade a camera every year for a fraction of the cost, etc., etc., would get my money,formed
- Apple's "no flexibility' is a dying model, especially w/ 4k and better opticsformed
- @formed i doubt it would be a fraction of the price. if that's the case, then sure. but people are so used to cheap subsidized phoneslvl_13
- that replacing a piece at a time seems to be just putting a band-aid on an outdated piece of gear.lvl_13
- it's like holding on to that old honda accord because it runs well. meanwhile there are some bentleys' out there just waiting to be had.lvl_13
- But not everyone can afford a new car. If you can just swap the engine to make it go faster without buying a car. why not?pango
- the camera replacement would be a fraction of the cost of buying an entire phone, of course it would be a fraction of the cost, it's just a pieceformed
- I want a better camera for my S5, but the rest of the phone is superb, none of the new phones have anything else I care about, so I won't upgradeformed
- and that's why the market is, for the first time, slowingformed
- and phones are subsidized anymore, so that's a moot point, payment plans, but not subsidizedformed
- *aren'tformed
- fair enough.lvl_13