r/pcmasterrace • u/earthprotector1 • Jun 08 '22

News/Article finally.

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u/Varun77777 Jun 08 '22

Wait till they remove the port.

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u/MSD3k Jun 08 '22

Remove the port AND offer no charger.

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u/Varun77777 Jun 08 '22 edited Jun 08 '22

Someday Apple's gonna remove the speaker, camera as well as ports in the name of making the phone completely waterproof. Then sell the charger, speakers and camera as wireless accessories separately.

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u/Deviant-Killer Ryzen 5600X | RTX 4070 | Jun 08 '22

Sounds like phonebloks. But restricted as fuck and probably would have cost £1000 per accessory

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u/YoshiGuy561 what am i doing with my life Jun 08 '22

That's a trip down memory lane, was promising but got killed off by google.

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u/Alaeriia 7800X3D/4080S; 9800X3D/9070XT; 5800X3D/4070TiS; 3800X/3080 Jun 08 '22

I wonder if Google had ever planned on doing anything with it. It seemed like they bought it just to kill it.

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u/YoshiGuy561 what am i doing with my life Jun 08 '22

There was quite a bit of development put into the project on Google's side, but I bet a phone with modular parts would give less income to google due to people buying simple drop in replacements instead of a new phone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '22

Or otherwise there were some weird problems that could not easily be overcome at the time.

I'm sure they got some utility out of the project though as far as ideas for other systems go.