Endless OS

Endless Mobile, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Computer hardware Computer software Consumer electronics Digital distribution Fabless manufacturing
Founded	2011; 6 years ago (2011), in San Francisco, California, U.S.
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Matt Dalio (CEO) Marcelo Sampaio (CGO) Richard Vignais (CDO) Jonathan Blandford (VP, Engineering)
Products	Endless OS Endless Mini Endless One Endless Mission
Website	endlessos.com

Coordinates: 37°46′26″N 122°25′53″W / 37.773972°N 122.431297°W / 37.773972; -122.431297

Endless Mobile, Inc. develops the Linux-based operating system Endless OS and reference platform hardware for it. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Endless was founded in May 2012 in San Francisco, California by Matthew Dalio and Marcelo Sampaio. In the first three years, the company focused on designing through field research in Rocinha, the largest favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and also in Guatemala.

In April 2015, the company was launched for the general public through a campaign on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. It raised $176,538 with 1,041 backers in less than 30 days.

On November 2015, Endless started to sell computers at Claro stores in Guatemala. Before that, the product was being sold in own Kiosks. January 2016 marked the launch of Endless Mini, a white spherical PC the size of a grapefruit, costing $79 and $99.

Endless OS is built on top of the Linux kernel and many other open source technologies. Unlike most Linux distributions, it uses a read-only filesystem managed by OSTree for OS updates and Flatpaks for application delivery and update. The user interface is based on a highly modified GNOME desktop environment.

Endless Mini was awarded CES Editors' Choice at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to Reviewed.com.

Endless Mini was selected by TechSpot as one of the best devices showcased at the 2016 Mobile World Congress.

PCWorld said that the Endless Computer can be useful for areas with limited internet access since it comes preinstalled with a lot of useful software and content, but for users who have easy access to the internet, there are alternatives that are significantly more powerful or significantly cheaper.

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