In late April, snap, the developer of instant messaging application snapchat, launched a flying camera called pixy during the annual partner summit Last week, the product, which starts at $230 (about 1533 RMB), officially went on sale. However, the first batch of buyers who wanted to taste the fresh food were told to wait three months to get it According to the latest news, according to the information on the official website, we have reason to believe that snap has not produced enough pixy flight cameras - because the current delivery time has been postponed to four months later.
The current estimated delivery time is 15-16 weeks later
Although it is reflected from the side that the heat of pixy flight camera is quite high, this does not mean that its sales data must be exaggerated.
Snap officials seem reluctant to disclose the exact capacity / sales data, but one thing is certain that the company far underestimates the purchase demand of consumers.
As for why snap is so conservative, we are not surprised. After all, the company had expected spectra "Sunglasses" to sell well, resulting in a loss of nearly $40 million due to overly optimistic forecasts.
Interestingly, prior to pixy's launch, snap CEO Evan Spiegel revealed to theverge that the company had produced very few new hardware after five years. But looking back later, Spiegel thought they could have produced more.
So far, friends who want to start pixy flight camera will have to wait patiently.
Snap spokesman Chloe keusder confirmed in an email that even the first batch of consumers who placed orders on the first day could not get them within a few weeks.
In other words, pixy did not prepare the initial inventory based on the estimated order quantity. As for how popular this flying camera is, it is not known for the time being.
As a reference, on April 28, the estimated delivery date displayed on snap's official website was 11 ~ 12 weeks. If you place an order today, you have to be ready to wait 15 to 16 weeks (or even longer).