Dropbox Sunsets Carousel and Mailbox
Dropbox has announced that it’s shutting down Carousel, its photo management app, on 31 March 2016 and Mailbox, its suite of email apps, on 26 February 2016. Dropbox said that it will integrate features from both apps into its core cloud storage offering. Carousel was an original creation of Dropbox in 2014 and at least made some sense, while Mailbox was an independent app that was acquired by Dropbox in 2013 for reasons that were never clear. The moral of the story for Dropbox? Stick to your knitting, or in this case, file sharing and document collaboration.
I used Mailbox on the iPhone (only, not the iPad) and am sad to see it go. Suspect I was only using it to get the extra GB of Dropbox storage, though I did stick with it.
Now trialling Googles' Inbox over their Gmail app.
I am disappointed to see Dropbox drop Mailbox. I'm not aware of another app that gives you the variety of swipe gestures to quickly manage your mail. I see this as an opportunity for someone to fill this void - even if it is a gimmicky way to leverage labels on Gmail or folders on iCloud.