Mailbox helped me get control of an otherwise unmanageable email problem. Brad Feld recently recommended outlook. Which is funny because an old version of outlook was the thing that created my email monster & subsequent search for a better email client.
Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox
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#22Ugh. Yet another intriguing email startup being acquihired and killed off by a more-established tech company (see also: Sparrow). It's 2015 and I still bounce around email clients every couple months because all of the major options have substantial flaws.
What do you not like about Outlook or Gmail (I think the market leaders)?
Outlook (I assume you're referring to the mobile app, not the desktop client) puts all of your emails on MS's servers, so that's a no go for lots of people.
Last I checked, the gmail app only worked with gmail accounts.
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#23Cool products coming and going doesn't really even surprise me anymore. I've become a little jaded to the whole come and go of all the different tools and apps.
Anyway, if you guys haven't checked out Boxer [1] for email, it's the best. I went a little obsessive, tested every email client on iOS, and this one was without a doubt is my favorite:
* Push notifications
* Doesn't hijack labels with archive/to-do/completed nonsense
* Universal inbox
* Nice labeling/archiving/customizing via swiping
* Beautiful interface
I love it and highly recommend
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#24So stupid, really! Carousel is the only Dropbox product I use and it works really great!
They're killing the apps I actually use from them. Carousel was quite useful for all of the photos I've uploaded, and handles uploading the photos pretty well too.
This is finally giving me the opportunity to explore using some of the other cloud storage such as Google Drive or even iCloud where I can save some money each month as well.
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#25So stupid, really! Carousel is the only Dropbox product I use and it works really great!
I was just thinking the same. Uninstalled it after reading the news. The "free up phone space" feature was too good on my phone (old and limited space)
If you want to migrate somewhere else - Google Photos for Android was updated recently with this feature and it was announced for iOS to come soon.
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#26Another one bites the dust... I still remember the discussion when the acquisition was announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5381572 I hope it was really not going anywhere.
>Did you not RTFA?
>> " To be clear, Mailbox is not going away.
When people say stuff like this when a startup gets acquired, don't believe them.
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#27Ugh. Yet another intriguing email startup being acquihired and killed off by a more-established tech company (see also: Sparrow). It's 2015 and I still bounce around email clients every couple months because all of the major options have substantial flaws.
What do you not like about Outlook or Gmail (I think the market leaders)?
It's such a pain to process hundreds of emails in Outlook, and there's no snoozing like there is with Mailbox or Inbox.
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#28What are the chances that these go down the path of HackPad and be turned into open source projects? I think it's a win-win situation if companies, such as Google and now Dropbox: let go of the responsibility of maintaining it and allow the project to live on in the hands of the community.
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#29Ugh. Yet another intriguing email startup being acquihired and killed off by a more-established tech company (see also: Sparrow). It's 2015 and I still bounce around email clients every couple months because all of the major options have substantial flaws.
What do you not like about Outlook or Gmail (I think the market leaders)?
I'm not the parent but Outlook's IMAP support is quirky at best and I very strongly prefer native applications to web applications. I also host my own email which marks gmail right out.
Email should be simple but there has been essentially no lasting innovation in email clients in a very long time unless you really want Google to host it for you
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#30Ugh. Yet another intriguing email startup being acquihired and killed off by a more-established tech company (see also: Sparrow). It's 2015 and I still bounce around email clients every couple months because all of the major options have substantial flaws.
Probably because there simply isn't money to be made in being an e-mail startup. Or, more correctly, there isn't enough money to be made to satisfy VC investors. Mailbox and the like could have lived quite comfortably as paid-for apps with comfortable but small levels of profit, but that isn't what Silicon Valley rewards. EDIT: also, IIRC Apple's restrictions on background processing meant that they needed to have ev…
I thought the business proposition of Mailbox and Carousel was providing more utility/centralization around Dropbox services/storage (via file attachments and photo storage). Which never was a great idea, but still.