Dropbox Acquires Mailbox
Some acquisitions make sufficiently little sense when taken at face value that they signal a major future direction, are mostly about acquiring specific talent or technology, or are just utterly misconceived. Dropbox’s acquisition of the company behind the Mailbox iPhone app falls into one of those categories, but it’s unclear which just yet, given that making a quirky iOS email client seems far from Dropbox’s core mission. Despite protestations that the Mailbox app will continue, it seems entirely possible that it could share the fate of the Sparrow email app, which, while still for sale, is no longer being developed after its developers joined Google in July 2012.
I removed Mailbox from my iPhone after a few weeks went by and it still only supported Gmail. I'll have to admit the membership countdown to join was pretty entertaining, though.
Isn't artificial scarcity exciting? :-)
I understand the purchase.
I think the amount paid was crazy insane stupid.