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Pixo

Handheld electronic device operating system software development

Field	Value
name	Pixo
logo	File:Pixo logo.svg
fate	Acquired by Sun Microsystems
successor	Sun Microsystems
foundation
founder	Paul Mercer
defunct
industry	Mobile software
products	Pixo OS
homepage

Pixo was a company that developed infrastructure for hand-held devices. It was founded in 1994 when Paul Mercer, a software developer at Apple, left to form his own company.{{Citation | url-status=live}} The company developed a system software toolkit in C++{{Citation | author-link = Bjarne Stroustrup

Pixo OS and use in Apple's iPod

In 2001, Pixo was rehired by Apple to adapt their system software for use in the iPod.{{Citation

On April 9, 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the shipment of its 100 millionth iPod, |url-status = dead

With the 2014 discontinuation of the iPod Classic and the 2017 discontinuation of the iPod Nano, which did not run iOS, Apple no longer sells a Pixo-based iPod.

References

"About Connectix".
(11 September 2014). "iPod Classic retired: Fans mourn as Apple quietly kills off its most iconic gadget". The Independent.
(27 July 2017). "Apple removes iPod nano and shuffle from website hinting at discontinuation". 9to5Mac.
(3 January 2011). "6G iPod nano hack just beginning of long road to nano apps". Ars Technica.

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