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Not one mention of fairphone? Not fully modular but it definitely ticks all the boxes for repairability and sustainability
Just depends on Google instead of degoogling like GrapheneOS
You can run CalyxOS on it. Or iodéOS or e OS.
I'm on Calyx on my FP4 right now! Works great!
I know, and they are both not fully degoogled. Kuketz blog (German)
See the link for a very detailed analysis of Custom ROMs. Maybe it is understandable with machine translation.
Ara was pretty cool. I really like the idea, but I was never clear on what the mods would contain.
A couple are obvious: biggest batteries and fancier cameras, but what then? I can see enthusiast stuff like an IR camera, and maybe some nonstandard radios. But is that enough to appeal to most consumers?
I'd imagine it being a hit during the early 2000s.
Nowadays in the 2020s though? Hardly. :/