Dropbox Kills Mailbox, an App It Bought for $100M
As it refocuses on business customers, Dropbox said today that it’s shutting down two of its once-marquee consumer-oriented apps: the photo gallery app Carousel and email client Mailbox.
The good news is that your Carousel photos aren’t going anywhere—they’ll still be stored in your Dropbox, where they’ve always been. Dropbox is even working to integrate some of Carousel’s functionality into the core Dropbox app interface. Mailbox users, however, will have to find a new email app by February 26, 2016, when the service that the Mailbox apps depend on will shut down.
“Over the past few months, we’ve increased our team’s focus on collaboration and simplifying the way people work together,” CEO Drew Houston and CTO Arash Ferdowsi wrote in a blog post announcing the decision today.
