The addition of condoleezza rice to the board of directors is puzzling. I don't understand that move at all.
I doubt that they even had any plans. They had investor money to spend and Mailbox was raising a lot of attention.
It's more likely they bought Mailbox for the development team.
Very likely because Apple thinks that something like iCloud Photo Library is a better way to have access to all your images on all your devices than copying images into folders inside the Dropbox folder. That doesn't work for all kind of files (yet) and Apple hasn't figured out how to solve this problem for other kind of files but it thinks there should be a better solution than Dropbox and it is still searching for that solution. For the time being it thus asks us to live with the imperfection of Dropbox.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?
It's more likely they bought Mailbox for the development team.
That's always the problem: Should we optimise our behaviour and tool selection to get the best tool or the tool with the lowest risks of disruptive changes?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?
Man, I really dug Carousel's UI for photo storage. The timeline feature? Stellar. Amazon's photo storage/organization system is pretty good too, but Carousel was always my go-to. Flickr: meh. All three beat the tar out of iCloud photo storage though.
It looks like Mailbox will be missed by many more than Carousel will, but Carousel did have its fans. Are there any suggested replacement alternatives from the hivemind?
Their service is unrivaled though. They should have listened to Jobs when he said they're a feature and not a product.
Sad news! I can't say that it comes a surprise though. The beta version for Mac has been a joke all along and the communication has been non-existent for the last couple of months.
Now I'm on the lookout for an alternative on both iOS and OS X. Darrrrrn.
Plenty of other email clients still exist, which makes that reasoning not all that applicable.I never understood how Mailbox could exist while iOS already has Mail.app.
Guess others agreed with me, so now Mailbox is going bye bye!![]()
...Their refusal to add tiers between free 2GB and $10/month of 1TB has always been a bad decision IMO. I would have paid for something in the middle.
It offered something novel which no other email app was doing at that time - an intuitive manner of quickly triaging your email.I never understood how Mailbox could exist while iOS already has Mail.app.
Guess others agreed with me, so now Mailbox is going bye bye!![]()
Isn't this a little like how Apple does business? The Apple ecosystem exists to keep people entrenched, so people will continue using (and buying) their hardware.You're definitely right but Dropbox is lacking a true definitive product right now, is what has people concerned for them. The larger companies who routinely buy and drop products have more diversified revenue streams than Dropbox.
Most people seem to agree that Dropbox still provides the best cloud service, which might be true, but I myself have already moved over to iCloud because it has the integrations I want/need and costs $0.99 for more than enough space.
What happens to Dropbox when Google's, Apple's and Microsoft's services catch up, in more people's minds?
This is part of the issue for me as well. I had endless problems with Photostream, and from my usage so far, iCloud Drive isn't much better. Part of that is how opaque the process is: you have know idea if and when a sync is happening. That transparency is hugely appreciated when you have limited upstream bandwidth.If Apple/Google/Microsoft/Amazon could come even close to how stable Dropbox has been for me, they wouldn't get my $99/year... I've tried them ALL, and none were ever as fast, stable, and "just worked." Every time I think I can switch, I end up not making the switch. You know the service is good when you don't even know it's there. It's just there. I was hoping iCloud Drive would be the ticket, but that's a joke...
Their refusal to add tiers between free 2GB and $10/month of 1TB has always been a bad decision IMO. I would have paid for something in the middle.
Part of that is how opaque the process is: you have know idea if and when a sync is happening. That transparency is hugely appreciated when you have limited upstream bandwidth.
Thats funny because apples mail app directly ripped off features from mailbox, yet still doesnt work as well as mailbox.I use an app that's really like Mail.app for that purpose.
It's called Mail.app.
Love Dropbox and use it everyday. I tried Mailbox briefly any never really cared for it. I never tried Carousel as it wasn't anything of interest to me.
Glad the core of Dropbox is sticking around though.
If they just put some of the Carousel features into the Dropbox app that'd be one thing, but it doesn't sound like that's the case. The photo interface in the Dropbox app is currently much worse than the Carousel app. The teeny tiny scroll bubble is certainly less user friendly than Carousel's timeline.Carousel was a good idea at some point, but then the dropbox app itself provides plenty of user friendly interface to navigate around and stuff. Plus I don't like the idea of another app where I have to classify/tag photos.
Based on the article and Dropbox's statements it seems like that's the kind of thing they are planning on doing.If they just put some of the Carousel features into the Dropbox app that'd be one thing, but it doesn't sound like that's the case. The photo interface in the Dropbox app is currently much worse than the Carousel app. The teeny tiny scroll bubble is certainly less user friendly than Carousel's timeline.
There's actually a FAQ that specifically mentions some features that are making the transition, but Timeline isn't among them. We already know that Flashback and Albums are definitively gone. We know the automatic upload stays (it never left, really, and worked in both apps).Based on the article and Dropbox's statements it seems like that's the kind of thing they are planning on doing.