OSOM, the Company Formed From Essential's Ashes, is Apparently in Shambles 15
A former executive of smartphone startup OSOM Products has filed a lawsuit alleging the company's founder misused funds for personal expenses, including two Lamborghinis and a lavish lifestyle. Mary Ross, OSOM's ex-Chief Privacy Officer, is seeking access to company records in a Delaware court filing.
OSOM, founded in 2020 by former Essential employees, launched two products: the Solana-backed Saga smartphone and a privacy cable. Android founder Andy Rubin founded Essential, which sought to compete with Apple and Android-makers on a smartphone, but later shutdown after not find many takers for its phone. The lawsuit claims OSOM founder Jason Keats used company money for racing hobbies, first-class travel, and mortgage payments.
OSOM, founded in 2020 by former Essential employees, launched two products: the Solana-backed Saga smartphone and a privacy cable. Android founder Andy Rubin founded Essential, which sought to compete with Apple and Android-makers on a smartphone, but later shutdown after not find many takers for its phone. The lawsuit claims OSOM founder Jason Keats used company money for racing hobbies, first-class travel, and mortgage payments.
loser (Score:1)
> The lawsuit claims OSOM founder Jason Keats used company money for racing hobbies, first-class travel, and mortgage payments
No hookers or blow? Fucking loser could have had it all.
Re: (Score:2)
All in on Project Gem long aspect ratio was stupid (Score:2)
Who would want a something long like that?
Besides your mom.
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What?
You know those hugely popular smartphone things you see almost everyone using these days? Some crafty scammer got it into his mind that he could con investors into believing there was actually room in the marketplace for yet another mid-range phone, but with privacy. Then he spent the investors' money on Lambos because he always knew the idea he was pitching was bullshit.
This is why I said before that there's a fine line between pitching a business plan you know is doomed to failure and what SBF did. It
Privacy to be made Illegal. (Score:2)
What?
You know those hugely popular smartphone things you see almost everyone using these days? Some crafty scammer got it into his mind that he could con investors into believing there was actually room in the marketplace for yet another mid-range phone, but with privacy. Then he spent the investors' money on Lambos because he always knew the idea he was pitching was bullshit.
Pfft. Yeah. Privacy. Who the hell would ever want that “bullshit” anymore.
The guy buying Lambos, isn’t the story. That pathetic fact, is.
Privacy will be illegal soon. No, no, don’t go bitching and crying about it now. You literally asked for it.
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Pfft. Yeah. Privacy. Who the hell would ever want that âoebullshitâ anymore.
I suspect the point was that you cannot have verified privacy on a cellphone. The baseband code cannot be opened to the user by law, and the baseband processor cannot be turned off, and may have direct access to the audio hardware. The phone can always be located by its attempts to ping cell sites; as long as two of them can see it, it can be located within a fairly small area. In most phones the battery cannot be removed, so the only way to have privacy without letting the battery die is to put the phone i
Camera (Score:3, Informative)
The PH-1 camera was trash and their camera app wasn't even tuned for making the best of it.
Some users pirated Google Camera with profiles hacked in just to make it mediocre.
They saved $5 and lost a huge market. Imagine if they had put a Sony sensor in.
Then Andy got metooed or something.
Then they had self-bricking problems and Qualcomm wouldn't let them release a repair tool.
I gave up and bought a used Pixel with LineageOS.
Customers can only support a novel company to a certain point. The company needs management with good judgment as well.
Andy Rubin... (Score:3)
Delusions of grandeur.
Forgot about them (Score:1)
Slasdhot in Russian (in English) (Score:1)
"after not find many takers "
Yes, he not find many takers, yes buddy?
WTF weekend illiterate slashdot editors? You not find many dictionaries?
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Privacy cable? (Score:2)