←back to thread

Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

358 points ofalkaed | 3 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.502s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
1. friendofafriend ◴[12 Oct 25 03:34 UTC] No.45554982[source]▶
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

replies(2): >>45556546 #>>45607434 #
2. stavros ◴[12 Oct 25 08:48 UTC] No.45556546[source]▶
It would have been very thick, too thick to compete.
3. hulitu ◴[16 Oct 25 16:27 UTC] No.45607434[source]▶
> 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".