thisisnotmyname
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I use mail.app with multiple gmail accounts successfully. What problem are you experiencing?
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Dropbox Shutting Down Mailbox and Carousel in Early 2016
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I use mail.app with multiple gmail accounts successfully. What problem are you experiencing?
FasterQuieter
macrumors 6502a
The writing has been on the wall for Mailbox for a while now, it's been all but abandoned for the last year. It is incredibly irritating when companies are bought with no real plans for them. Dropbox were initially enthusiastic about Mailbox, then they must have realized there was no money in it. How did they not see that before they bought it? Anyway, I switched to Outlook. It is the best alternative I've tried and it has a watch app that is actually useful.
khaosuser
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I'm glad it works for you 🙂. I take A LOT of photos so wish I had more control over photo syncing, among some other little issues.
While I acknowledge Siri does more than Google Now, it's no contest for me in terms of which one is better at word recognition. I really want to like Siri but it's just slow. And I have a neutral accent. Can't imagine how it works with someone who has a difficult accent.
I completely agree. Smells like they don't know where they are going when shutting down some apps and launching some new. Apparently they just throw something out and see if it gets any snow ball effect. I migrated away from Dropbox to icloud drive a year ago and I guess many other users did too to either g drive, icloud drive or one drive. Dropbox once filled a gap but it doesn't anymore. Just shutdown the whole company before it gets bankrupt.
CagdasCizer
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iamMacPerson
macrumors 68040
I can't upload files to iCloud from iOS, but I can to Dropbox. Why is that? I literally need to email them to myself then save them into iCloud from there. Every other cloud storage service (including Dropbox and OneDrive, and I have used both) allow you to upload from the share sheet in iOS. Why can't Apple?
Buran
macrumors 6502
I ditched Mailbox long ago in favour of Spark because the Mailbox app was so woefully behind. No watch support, no quick actions support, nothing. It was a great idea, but I got tired of waiting. I contacted them multiple times on Twitter and they never bothered to reply or even update users on what they were working on. "Oh, a user contacted us recently and wants to know what we're up to and where our watch support is? It's November 2015, the watch came out months ago. Let's ignore that message. It's not like Spark is out there or anything."
That's not how it works, Mailbox, and you lost me for good when you didn't tell me that the features I needed were coming but Spark was there with open arms.
Spark is great. And as much as they want to say that they want to stop email from being generated as much, it's not going to happen fast enough. I still use email for a lot of things, and I still need a client that manages it my way, and until the iOS native mail app gains swiping support for quick-filing, I'm going to stick with Spark.
Hey, Mailbox people: if Spark was able to step in and say "Hey, these swipe actions are a great idea, but these guys have abandoned their users, so let's give those people the product Mailbox would have been by now", or something of that nature, and do well -- there still is a need for that app. Why did you abandon me and so many other users?
Clearly, the overwhelming demand for your app at the beginning was a hint that it was and is still needed.
Thank you, Spark, for being there when Mailbox wasn't. You care about your customers' needs. Mailbox talked the talk but quit walking the walk.
That's not how it works, Mailbox, and you lost me for good when you didn't tell me that the features I needed were coming but Spark was there with open arms.
Spark is great. And as much as they want to say that they want to stop email from being generated as much, it's not going to happen fast enough. I still use email for a lot of things, and I still need a client that manages it my way, and until the iOS native mail app gains swiping support for quick-filing, I'm going to stick with Spark.
Hey, Mailbox people: if Spark was able to step in and say "Hey, these swipe actions are a great idea, but these guys have abandoned their users, so let's give those people the product Mailbox would have been by now", or something of that nature, and do well -- there still is a need for that app. Why did you abandon me and so many other users?
Clearly, the overwhelming demand for your app at the beginning was a hint that it was and is still needed.
Thank you, Spark, for being there when Mailbox wasn't. You care about your customers' needs. Mailbox talked the talk but quit walking the walk.
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Yeah we all have to use what works. I also take lots of pics (DSLR) and use Lightroom and a Macbook Air. Copy the files via network when I get home.
Agree but only on pricing. I have been very slowly going away from Dropbox, I think they are still one of the best when it comes to cloud based stuff, but they are too expensive for me. For my photos I go with Onedrive and BT sync these days. If dropbox will lower their price for the 1TB plan, I'll consider going back (or even paying for it).
JonSarge3108
macrumors regular
Dropbox pretty much runs my world - home and work.
Should I start looking for an alternative?
OneDrive or Box ?
Should I start looking for an alternative?
OneDrive or Box ?
Fender2112
macrumors 65816
So, what is it that all these other mail clients do that Mail.app can't do? I've tried several over the years and I always come back to Mail.
Quu
macrumors 68040
CagdasCizer
macrumors regular
Mailbox was focused on cleaning your mail therefore every action/swype was for that goal. I had a messy mail account back then because it was hard to sort your mail and keep an organized mailbox.
Just tried Spark and it seems like a pretty good alternative. Has the features from Mailbox I really like. Unfortunately Inbox is not going to work since it's Gmail-only.
If Spark wants to create a Mac version that'd be killer.
EDIT: I'll also add that Spark allows IMAP account besides Gmail and iCloud, which is awesome. That was always my biggest pet peeve with Mailbox.
If Spark wants to create a Mac version that'd be killer.
EDIT: I'll also add that Spark allows IMAP account besides Gmail and iCloud, which is awesome. That was always my biggest pet peeve with Mailbox.
They bought Mailbox less than two months after its initial iOS release, I doubt that they even had any plans. They had investor money to spend and Mailbox was raising a lot of attention. After that, Mailbox probably just burned lots of money while not generating any. They never sold anything and even offered additional free space to Dropbox users. The costs must have been extensive.
I think Dropbox's plan was to integrate everything into an ecosystem people would buy into (ultimately paying for Dropbox). But unfortunately I bet they're finding that competing with Microsoft, Google, and Apple is pretty tough on the basis of ecosystem. And again, Dropbox has the worst pricing scheme of all of them, so that doesn't help.
Guess they're still figuring out what that ecosystem is going to look like.
I doubt Dropbox is in any sort of trouble. Mailbox was obviously a misstep by them, but not their core business.
The founders could sell the company for probably 10x what Steve Jobs offered at the time.
The founders could sell the company for probably 10x what Steve Jobs offered at the time.
tremblewithfear6
macrumors newbie
It's a shame that DropBox is killing these two great additions. I got invited to Mailbox a while back during the beta, but after a few months, I gave up on working with a third-party application for my inbox. I needed something that wouldn't constantly bother me, as I get e-mails like crazy from ~7 different sources (work, school, gmail, aol, another gmail, and one more for my work).
I have been using Carousel since it came out. Initially, I was skeptical on differences between that app and DropBox. However, I noticed that it would back-up all the images to a timeline, allow for favoriting images (handy when you need to pull up bus schedules and stuff), and really allowed me to have easy access to images online/offline while taking up pretty much no space on my phone.
Dropbox as a company has overvalued their services provided to customers. Cloud storage is becoming unlimited, cheap/free, and everywhere. From pirate-haven sources like MEGA or file-sharing domains with apps to accompany them, to Google Drive, iCloud, and OneDrive. I'm also in the free-tier and would absolutely pay... For a reasonable price. They don't have any options that work. It's either pay a lot for a lot, or pay a little for a small storage. Much like PlayStation Now, DropBox has really failed to have a good subscription-service payment system.
While I have really enjoyed DropBox, I feel that with time, if they refuse to advance as a company, they will eventually crumble. Much bigger companies are already at DropBox level or will reach DropBox level of services in a short amount of time. For example, iCloud now allows access to images and documents across most devices (even Windows-based devices).
The future of DropBox unfortunately, does not look very bright.
I have been using Carousel since it came out. Initially, I was skeptical on differences between that app and DropBox. However, I noticed that it would back-up all the images to a timeline, allow for favoriting images (handy when you need to pull up bus schedules and stuff), and really allowed me to have easy access to images online/offline while taking up pretty much no space on my phone.
Dropbox as a company has overvalued their services provided to customers. Cloud storage is becoming unlimited, cheap/free, and everywhere. From pirate-haven sources like MEGA or file-sharing domains with apps to accompany them, to Google Drive, iCloud, and OneDrive. I'm also in the free-tier and would absolutely pay... For a reasonable price. They don't have any options that work. It's either pay a lot for a lot, or pay a little for a small storage. Much like PlayStation Now, DropBox has really failed to have a good subscription-service payment system.
While I have really enjoyed DropBox, I feel that with time, if they refuse to advance as a company, they will eventually crumble. Much bigger companies are already at DropBox level or will reach DropBox level of services in a short amount of time. For example, iCloud now allows access to images and documents across most devices (even Windows-based devices).
The future of DropBox unfortunately, does not look very bright.
ericg301
macrumors 68020
That's terrible news. I've been using Mailbox as my main client for all my devices including my Mac, iPad and iPhone. Over time I completely ditched Apple's Mail.app assuming that Mailbox would be a reliable, sustainable mail client for all my devices. Now they're shutting down the sevice? That's a big dissappoint to me. Right now I can only come up with Microsoft's Outlook app as an alternative, though it lacks a standalone Mac app. Any better suggestions?
