Modular phones really never stood a chance

The more complicated a plan is, the more likely it is to fail. Project Ara is dead. Just four months after Google announced they were going to work on a developer model for the end of this year and a consumer model sometime in 2017, the program was laid to rest. And really, is anyone surprised? The deck was stacked against them since the idea was born. The idea itself is great. Forget the folks who say they will carry around different cameras or different speakers or different anything because t...