Tuesday, October 29, 2013

10/29/13 Current Event

Phonebloks is a company that wants to create a phone that all of the different functions are on separate blocks.  Motorola partnered with them earlier this month to create a phone with interchangeable parts.  Project Ara has been quietly tinkered on for over a year by the ATAP team of Motorola.  Motorola is not funding Phonebloks though.  They still rely on donationns to hire developers and rent servers so that it can up a web forum that people can up-vote proposals and feedback on Project Ara.  David Hakken, Dutch designer of Phonebloks, says that he would partner with other manufacturers in concert in what is essentially an open source effort.  I like the idea of a customizable phone.  I, personally, love Apple and want them to continue to improve, innovate and compete with other companies.  Phonebloks would be a great incentive for Apple to innovate, improveand lower the price of their products along with the other popular manufacturers.  This might not be the best thing for Apple and it's competitors, but it is fantastic for consumers.

The ideas and thoughts expressed in this article came from my mind and http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2013/10/29/motorola-partners-with-viral-sensation-phonebloks-to-launch-a-modular-smartphone/.

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 3, 2013 at 4:42 AM

    This is a genius idea. It would save a lot of money too. It would be cool if Apple made an iPhone with this block system.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 3, 2013 at 9:53 AM

    Phone Bloks sound purty darn cool. I am glad that cell phone competitors will try to innovate their phones because it means a great product for us consumers.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 3, 2013 at 5:12 PM

    I agree that this really helps consumers, and that it makes it harder on developers. Honestly though, this will really help decrease the power of apple and make competition better in the cell phone market which is good. Maybe phones won't cost hundreds of dollars anymore haha.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 4, 2013 at 5:06 AM

    I agree that this will help by adding competition to the phone market, it will also force large phone companies to innovate and substantially lower prices which is great for consumers but may have bad effects on the companies

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  5. AnonymousNovember 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM

    I would absolutely love one. My phone is horrible and i know that would be just the thing i need

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