Feil Sinn Electronics
Feil Sinn Electronics is a multinational consumer electronics and electronics component producer headquartered in Leighlinbridge, Faneria. Feil Sinn is best known for its line of home computers, the 'Feil-Safe' line of adblock and VPN softwares, the internet browser Eolach (Enlighten), and its Office User Programs suite. Additionally, Feil Sinn's largest subsidiary, FS Engineering, produces electronic components for various appliances and other products from microwaves to planes. Feil Sinn ranked 2nd largest computing technology company by gross revenue globally after Nexus S.A. in 2030 and the largest in the Coscivian and Gaelic world, and is one of the Big Six Fanerian companies.
Feil Sinn was founded by Jonah Sinn and Mack Feil in 1984 to pursue the development of the SFOS-1 operating system for IBA Computing's Office Standard Computing System. Due to naming issues between the two, the operating system was named in reverse to primarily credit Sinn, who was the main code developer, while Feil primarily managed business and user interface design. IBA itself was struggling to develop software at the time due to a number of leading specialists leaving the company for General Computing in 1982 to pursue the Feallsanrih Beta supercomputer project. The pair continued contract work for IBA until deciding to launch their own personal computer line with funding from Feil's inheritances, believing IBA's focus on low-cost office systems left a large gap in the market for high-end consumer computers, which at the time was dominated by early Urcean imports. However, this lead to a falling-out with IBA's management, and the two cut ties with the company by 1989 and launched their own home computers with SFOS-6. IBA sued Feil Sinn over the use of SFOS features, but the co-founders had declined large segments of their pay in exchange for proprietary rights to their work, and as a result strongarmed IBA into compliance out of court. Feil Sinn launched stock options in 1991 and continued launching SFOS updates afterwards, as well as a growing line of personal computers and computer parts. FS Engineering was formed in 2002, and the company since has expanded in scale, particularly into Fiannrian and Coscivian markets.
Feil Sinn specializes in consumer-oriented products, and is the only Fhainnin computing company to not produce FeallsanOS-compatible parts, making it independent from the Fhainnin government's internal computer systems and preventing it from acquiring state bureaucracy and most types of intranational military contracts. This factor has made it by far the most internationally trustworthy of Faneria's high technology companies, and Feil Sinn has publicly committed to a mission statement of integration with global computing.
Feil Sinn is generally regarded as a producer of high-performance computer systems, though it entered touchscreen technology late and hesitantly, resulting in its smartphone line not being released until 2018. Additionally, the company has shied away from cloud storage and computing citing user security and data privacy concerns. Many of the company's ethical considerations came in to play primarily after the passing of Feil in 2015 from cancer, leaving Sinn as a plurality stockholder and CEO.