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Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by STRiDEX »

pkamb wrote: post #59

I thought Carousel looked really cool, eagerly installed it on release. Then I discovered that when Carousel is installed, the Dropbox app stops automatically uploading photos from your phone. You have to now open Carousel to do so. Broke my existing upload process, and due to iOS permissions for the new app or not launching it frequently or something the new Carousel upload process wasn't reliable. Discovered this b…

Sounds like you had a bad experience. I enjoyed the app until recently switching to amazon primes unlimited photo uploads. The amazon photo app has a very similar feature set compared to Carousel, but seemingly worse performance on large collections.

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by azinman2 »

tvararu wrote: post #138

I felt this coming given my experience using the Mailbox desktop app since it launched: - Good experience, fairly regular releases, stability increasing with each one. - Stagnation in releases, but app is in a fairly good working state. - Out of the blue, big update comes in, application changes completely. For the worse, as it loses a bunch of features and is sporting a far less polished look and finish. I believe t…

I just don't think they had the numbers on Carousel, and maybe not enough growth in Mailbox either. If they were getting users like mad, of course Dropbox would focus its attention on expanding them.

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by itslennysfault »

pkamb wrote: post #59

I thought Carousel looked really cool, eagerly installed it on release. Then I discovered that when Carousel is installed, the Dropbox app stops automatically uploading photos from your phone. You have to now open Carousel to do so. Broke my existing upload process, and due to iOS permissions for the new app or not launching it frequently or something the new Carousel upload process wasn't reliable. Discovered this b…

I had the same experience. I really liked Carousel. It was a great way to organize my photos, but like you said it totally disables auto-sync.

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by zwily »

vessenes wrote: post #80

Ooh, this is very sad. I rely heavily on Mailbox and its follow-up functionality. Any advice for ios-capable replacements out there? EDIT: The FAQ recommends Google Inbox, Apple Mail and Outlook. I just looked at Inbox again after quite a while away, and it seems like it may be feature-complete with Mailbox.

I was a die-hard Sparrow user when that was killed. I've been using Inbox now since it came out, and it mostly fits the bill. I wish there was a desktop app like Sparrow, but the browser UI is decent. I still have to open gmail occasionally to make filters, but that's all.

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by tedmiston »

> We’ve come to believe that the best way for us to improve people’s productivity going forward is to streamline the workflows that generate so much email in the first place.

AKA Paper --> https://paper.dropbox.com

I don't know if I understand what Dropbox is anymore. It's gone from: syncing file storage --> a decentralized app ecosystem that in some ways competes with PaaS (effectively an OS [1]) --> document and media collaboration tools.

They might be one of the only companies whose products compete with Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon...

Just to clarify, I think they've done all of these things well.

1: http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2015/12/07/059...

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by chollida1 »

Is this Dropbox cleaning up their balance sheet in an attempt to IPO?

There's a pretty loud rumor floating around, heck it was reported on CNBC today, that Dropbox can't come close to IPOing anywhere near its $10 Billion dollar valuation. Though Fidelity did mark them up slightly at the end of November!

And for better or worse, they are going to be closely compared to Box, which has been a pretty big disaster since IPOing. For the record, BOX is valued at 1.65 Billion currently. And it has an awful lot of short interest current( a measure of the ratio of shares sold short vs the total outstanding shares).

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by azinman2 »

ckluis wrote: post #107
grinich wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey there-- I work at Nylas. We've structured our business to... actually have a business. Our team spent the first year selling APIs to developers [1] which already power lots of paid apps. The N1 mail app we released two months ago[2] follows this and will have paid features next year. Plus both are open source free software, and quite popular on GitHub. [3] [1] https://nylas.com/features/ [2] https://nylas.com/n1…

I’d pay to have delete actually delete email completely (not just from my inbox, but from all as well).

@softawre: He's asking for it to delete on the receivers side too.

I think certain enterprise-y email solutions have this, but there's no way to have that happen in the distributed email ecosystem unless all your messages were just links to a website that could delete the content centrally, or similarly, jpg's of rendered text that were somehow forced to be remotely fetched each time.

Re: Dropbox closing Carousel and Mailbox

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Post by presidentender »

mkhalil wrote: post #93

This is the reason why I stick to the native mail on iOS or Gmail app for the emails i need instantly without fetch. Yeah they may have their cons, but I don't have to worry about Apple dropping Mail app. Mail should be simple, I think the best apps are the lightweight ones that don't require too much work to keep alive, and definitely don't require a backend server process. Also, Mailbox had access to all your mail,…

Rice never married.
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