Flux Inc.
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 Flux headquarters in Exley, Great Kingdom | |
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| Traded as | ESE: FLUX |
| Industry | Computer software Computer hardware Artificial intelligence Consumer electronics Digital distribution Domotics Holography |
| Founded | 17 December 1981 in Exley, Great Kingdom |
| Founder | Josh Landry Andrew Selka |
| Headquarters | Exley , |
Number of locations | 900+ retail stores (2019) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Timothy Aultalinea (Chairman) Josh Landry (CEO) Andrew Selka (COO) |
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| Revenue | $321 billion (2019) |
| $81 billion (2019) | |
| $63 billion (2019) | |
Number of employees | 175,000 (2019) |
Flux Inc is a Edenic multinational technology company headquartered in Exley, Eden that designs, develops, and sells a variety of technology-based products across the world. It is among the "Big Three" of technology companies from the Great Kingdom, which includes Flux Inc, Goldlink, and Pavilion.
The company's hardware products include some of the most advanced smart technology in Alitheia, including the IXM Series, which includes smart phones, watches, and tablets. Flux also distributes it's FLC series of smart computers, the successor to the discontinued Mirror I series computers. The FLC series is famed for it's inclusion of the HP1 experimental holographic projector, which is set to revolutionise communication in the Great Kingdom. Flux Inc's "early stage strong artificial intelligence," (intelligent virtual assistant) dubbed Lana, is present in most of the company's products, meant to serve as a guide and personal assistant to the user - including in the company's Astora SmartHome Suite, directly competing with Pavilion's domotics systems.
Flux Inc works very closely with Valaran's Kythean, which provides chips and other components for Flux systems. Kythean also provides the primary telecommunications network which Flux devices are connected to in both the Great Kingdom and Valaran, with nearly a hundred million more devices connected than the closest contender, the Great Kingdom's Horizon.
Headquartered in the Great Kingdom, Flux Inc operates branches across the world. It operates branches in the Great Kingdom, Valaran, Arkana, the UoAE, and Hong Xia. Flux Inc has a strong influence in the development of the Great Kingdom's technology sector and holds significant weight in the Great Kingdom's worldwide corporate presence. It operates over 900 retail stores, primarily located in the Great Kingdom and Valaran.
History
Flux Inc was first founded in 1981 by Josh Landry, an Edenic native, and Andrew Selka, a refugee from the URA with Edenic and Roskian ancestry. The childhood friends developed the company's first product, the IIM series computer, which performed notably better than counterpart systems at the time, and sold for an even base price of 1899 Edenic credits, adjusted for inflation. With the performance of the IIM series on display, multimillionaire angel investors John Sutton, Lohua Xiong, and Erich Cox-Thompson provided critical funding, consulting, and expertise to the young designers. After a year of coordination with said investors, Landry and Selka saw their sales skyrocket by over 600% for a total of over 100 million Edenic credits.
Lohua Xiong, an advocate for the proliferation of graphical user interfaces, suggested to and allotted funds for Flux Inc to develop a graphical user interface for it's devices, which would come to it's final form in what is now known as the IXOS (Series 9 Operating System). While their initial implementations of early graphical user interfaces failed due to prices, proportionally lower utility, and marketing missteps, the company saw success with their release of the XF series of computers, which were the first computers in the world to be released without a programming language, and an updated, more functional version of their primitive GUI. The XF series saw so much success that they became commonplace in both the workplaces and homes of Great Kingdom citizens, and is widely seen as the company's breakout product. The XF series would be discontinued in favour of the FLS series of computers, which were more or less extensively updated versions of the XF series. The FLS series would be continued to be updated and manufactured until 2018, when the company unveiled it's brand new FLC series, featuring a number of integrated innovations, including the HP1 holographic projector.
Perhaps the most distinctive achievement in the history of Flux Inc's production was the unveiling of the Alitheia's first internet-enabled smart phone under the IXM (Series 9 Mirror) series. The IXM series has undergone over 10 iterations, each with unique innovations in display, quality, endurance, and photography. The IXM series is one of Alitheia's most widely used smartphones, with hundreds of millions of units sold in the Great Kingdom and Valaran alone. Flux Inc sales analyst Oscar Suarez claimed in 2016 that nearly one billion IXM units had sold across Alitheia.
Products
FLS series
FLS computers still currently widely proliferated:
- FLS S1: Consumer desktop computer, introduced in 1996
- FLS S2X: Consumer all-in-one desktop computer, introduced in 1998
- FLS S3: Workplace desktop computer, introduced in 2005
- FLS L1: Consumer laptop computer, introduced in 2006
- FLS L2 Fly: Consumer ultra thin, ultra portable notebook, introduced in 2008
- FLS Comet: eSports gaming computer, introducted in 2012
FLC series
FLC computers currently in production:
- FLC S1: Consumer smart desktop computer, introduced in 2018
- FLC L1: Consumer ultra thin, ultra portable, smart notebook, introduced in 2018
IXM series
The IXM series, the first series of internet-enabled smartphones, has gone through 10 iterations featuring innovations in display, convenience, endurance, photography, quality, and audio. It is the primary facet by which Flux customers access the IXOS Store and IXOS Essentials, and interact with Lana, the company's virtual assistant.
IXM series smartphones:
- IXM 1 (2007)
- IXM 2 (2008)
- IXM 3 (2009)
- IXM 3G (2009)
- IXM 4 (2010)
- IXM 5 (2011)
- IXM 5G (2011)
- IXM 5S (2012)
- IXM 5S+ (2012)
- IXM 6 (2013)
- IXM 6S (2013)
- IXM 7 (2014)
- IXM 8 (2015)
- IXM 9 (2016)
- IXM 9S (2017)
- IXM 9S+ (2018)
- IXM 10 (2019)
- IXM 11 (2020)
- IXM 12 (2021)
IXM watch series
The IXM SmartWatch is a wristwatch equipped with smart technology that allows the user to complete functions normally carried out by the phone counterpart of the watch on the move and without the phone itself. It is one of Flux Inc's hottest selling products in the Great Kingdom.
IXM smart watches in production:
- IXM W1 (2015)
- IXM W2 (2017)
- IXM W3 (2019)
- IXM W4 (2021)
Astora SmartHome Suite
The Astora SmartHome Suite is a bundle package that includes Flux Inc's domotics technology, based around the IXOS Pod, the interactive command module by which the user can control the conditions of their home. The Astora Suite offers the user integral control of lighting, temperatures, locks, security, internet connection, and communication all based around interaction with Lana via the IXOS Pod and it's control panels. While the Astora Suite offers cutting edge innovations in the line of domotics, company executives have come under fire for overpricing the product, and some consumers claim that the more widely proliferated Pavilion SmartHome Suite offers very similar output for a far more affordable price. Flux Inc chairman Timothy Aultalinea has been quoted saying that neither he nor his executive counterparts would respond to such "ludicrous" claims. Despite controversy, the Astora Suite still sold with relative success in the Great Kingdom, with limited success in Valaran.
- Flux Products
IXM 10
IXM watches on display in a store in Edenguard
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FLC L1 (left) and FLS L2 Fly (right)
IXOS Panel as part of the Astora Suite
FLS S3
FLS L1
IXM W3 worn
IXOS Pod, as part of the Astora Suite
