Organization:Quill

Quill is an electronics company founded by Steve Jobs in 12012 NHE.

qTalk
The original qTalk was launched in 12013 NHE. It was a beige clamshell cell phone with no screen and small rubber buttons. It sold relatively well, but was infamous for the buttons wearing out after a couple years of use.

After complaints, Quill replaced the rubber buttons with plastic braille buttons free of charge, lending the device a nature of longevity it originally did not have.

qTalk (12014)
The qTalk as most people know it is about an inch thick, three inches wide and 6 inches long. It had a stylus-activated touch screen that was 2.5 inches wide and 4 inches long, framed by the beige plastic case that was shaped into a form best described as laying a cylinder down on its circumference and squashing it until the ends were oval-shaped.

qTop
In September of 12017 NHE, Quill released the qTop. Instead of stuffing a full-fledged computer into a plastic dome like the iMac G4, the qTop's dome only housed the electronics needed to make the qTop a long-lived computer terminal, including USB 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 ports as well as a slot-loading Blu-Ray drive and an Ethernet port.

New users were annoyed that the system would not function without an afternet connection, mainly due to the complete lack of accompanying networking technologies in the New Real. Most of the connectivity was via the four wing-like antennae that extended from the dome, giving the qTop a Bluetooth 5.0 transceiver, an LTE data transceiver, a wi-fi transceiver, and a GPS receiver. Aside from GPS and Bluetooth peripherals, these transceivers were essentially an electrical plug in an 1800's home. Even more ahead of its time was the li-fi receiver, a 2-inch wide light sensor built into the qTop's dome directly above the Blu-Ray slot which could provide 96 Mbit/s networking and doubled as a touch-sensitive power button.

The qTop connects to servers within the Library of Virtually Everything, which hosted user profiles of the ExTen Distributed Operating System. This meant that as upgrades were made to the ExTenD OS servers, the qTop would get progressively faster, instead of growing obsolete. At least, in theory. Since the qTop has been available for purchase less than a year as of May 12018, it is unknown if the qTop's cloud-based design will stand the test of time.

The Future
Quill is testing a new product, the Quill Lens, by providing prototypes to its qWorkshop employees. The device is intended to compete with BEC's AR-100, AR-500 and AR-800 smartgoggles, which currently have a combined 65% share of the smartvision market.