A brief history of Google’s ill-fated modular smartphone, Project Ara

Google’s ambitious plan to bring modular smartphones to market, Project Ara, has been suspended.
While there’s still a chance that Google will breathe new life into Ara by licensing it to third-parties, the company — plagued by delays and talent drain — long abandoned its original vision: to dramatically reduce e-waste and bring an “open hardware ecosystem” to billions of people.
In light of Google’s shrinking ambitions for