The "Phonebloks" concept video uploaded by Dave Hakkens on his YouTube channel went viral recently. It seemed to me like a very interesting idea, even righteous at that. I personally think it has the potential to become the much needed green alternative.
If such a phone actually comes out in the market, I would probably want to buy one myself. In fact I (and I am sure many of you) have had to change phones only because a single component of the phone got ruined or outdated. There are so many features on my old phones which I miss terribly on my new one. So, this product actually has the potential to become the perfect phone (at least for me).
I also read a few comments many of which put up good and strong opinions. Firstly, we must keep in mind that this good fellow is just putting forward an idea. And he mentions in the video itself that in order for this idea to become a reality, big companies and experts would have to work together.
Now it is this part that I do not find very feasible. I really doubt that any of the actual big companies would want to work on this phone, that too together. One of the main tricks of generating profits applied by most of the major phone companies is by making ever-so-slight modifications and alterations to its products and releasing them as "new" products. This "new and updated" product would render the previous version redundant and hence we would have to get the new one. Also lets not forget that it's tricks like these that keeps the economy from becoming stagnant.
The comment below also put up a valid point below got me thinking -
When the blocks are that easily replaceable, there might actually be a boost in the market demand for newer blocks. I guess I wouldn't wait for a block to go bad to buy a new block. I'd just keep multiple options and assemble my phone into combinations practically everyday according to what I have planned for said day.
So it makes me wonder whether the companies would actually work on something that can have a profound impact, positive or negative, on their vested interest.
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