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Even at Google most people knew this project was stillborn. It's a combination of two factors: no one but a few geeks actually has any need for this, and the overwhelming majority of profits in the industry is taken by a company that builds the opposite of Ara, further underscoring the former point. It terms of flushing money down the drain it ranks way up there with Google Glass and Project Loon.


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I am still baffled that countless intelligent people deluded themselves into thinking this could have worked well on a big scale for the longest time.

As Alexander Pushkin(a famous Russian poet) wrote in one of his poems: "Oh it is not hard to fool me, for I am eager to be fooled."

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