{"id":123186,"date":"2024-09-05T20:11:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/osom-products-the-phone-company-founded-by-ex-essential-employees-is-shutting-down\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:11:10","slug":"osom-products-the-phone-company-founded-by-ex-essential-employees-is-shutting-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/osom-products-the-phone-company-founded-by-ex-essential-employees-is-shutting-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Osom Products, the phone company founded by ex-Essential employees, is shutting down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup jzbdtsa jzbdts0\">The report in <em>Android Authority <\/em>is correct, Osom is sadly shutting down. In May of 2024, having no customers for a mobile phone despite concerted efforts, Osom at the time decided to pivot to a new project. Osom was forced to let go of a number of employees at that time to reduce our burn rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup jzbdtsa jzbdts0\">Unfortunately, given the bleak market climate for fundraising for consumer electronics startups, we were unable to raise a new round. While some maintenance operations to ensure contractual requirements will proceed, Osom\u2019s general operations will shut down on September 6th. &#8211; Jason Keats, CEO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/5\/24236852\/essential-phone-osom-company-shutting-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report in Android Authority is correct, Osom is sadly shutting down. In May of 2024, having no customers for a mobile phone despite concerted efforts, Osom at the time decided to pivot to a new project. Osom was forced to let go of a number of employees at that time to reduce our burn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-123186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}