Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorPixy, we hardly knew ye.Less than four months after Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled Pixy, a drone-powered camera that can record videos and photos for sharing on Snapchat, the company is shutting down development of the device.Pixy, currently priced at $250 apiece, remains available for purchase in the U.S.
for now (presumably until inventory runs out). According to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, Spiegel informed staffers in a recent Q&A session that the Pixy project was getting scrapped as part of a reprioritization of company resources.Snap declined to comment on the decision to shut down Pixy.Snap Inc.
still describes itself as “a camera company,” but so far none of its products beyond the core Snapchat app have taken off. Back in 2016, the company introduced Spectacles, its line of camera-enabled sunglasses, and simultaneous renamed itself from Snapchat to Snap.
The luxury-priced Spectacles failed to sell in significant numbers, and Snap has since scaled back its wearables efforts to target creators and power users.
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