Dear Santa, Mailbox + Sparrow, please.

We’ll be taking key features from Carousel back to the place where your photos live—in the Dropbox app. We’ll also be using what we’ve learned from Mailbox to build new ways to communicate and collaborate on Dropbox

seems like a reasonable path forward. never really understood why Carousel was a separate product.

In the past month or so two services that I use daily announced their plans to shut down... I switched from Rdio to Spotify a few weeks ago, and from the UX perspective the Spotify experience so far has been subpar. Now, where do I go for Mailbox replacement? Bummer!

It's sad to see nice products like Mailbox, Sparrow go down the rabbit hole. Related Article: https://medium.com/swlh/the-unreliable-startup-69461f629383#.dj5brob7t

Have heard in Designer News that Pixate is on the same road.

So, when Mailbox first launched, the Orchestra team cited attempts to minimize email and streamline the work that causes so much email had failed. So they created a new email tool. From the Orchestra team lead, Gentry: "we believe Mailbox offers a simpler and more direct approach to our mission of solving the problem of using email as a to-do list."

Now, Dropbox is citing that "we realized there’s only so much an email app can do to fundamentally fix email."

My hunch is that when (not if) Paper and their other collaboration attempts fail to catch on, Dropbox will re-release an email client. I bet we'll just cycle between attempts to eliminate email and better manage email.

Also, don't say Dropbox doesn't have the resources to keep a simple email client working. With thousands of employees and seemingly endless funding, it's entirely possible.

It's another sign Dropbox has no clue where they're going.

I've tried a few other mail clients over the past few days and nothing has been quite on par with Mailbox. I wonder what Dropbox's strategy is going forward; I know from personal experience that the company has a brilliant team, but from the outside; it seems like they are making a bunch of random moves.

Mailbox has been my primary email client on both iOS and Mac since they beta started so I'm sad to see this happen. But I can appreciate the situation that Dropbox is in and I'm glad they came out and said it concretely instead of letting the product rot with no updates.

Here we go again

"How dare you shut down the service that I was paying nothing for, you bastards?!"

glad that I made a switch to Google photos from Carousel months ago... as for Mailbox, it's popular because it supports email clients other than gmail? I mainly use gmail so inbox is a pretty neat

Oh no! Two more me-too-apps are dead! Another company trying to regain their focus. OMG what a disaster! lol

I just don't understand why not open-sourcing it to the community?

I really enjoyed Mailbox, but I'm not surprised. Although parts of the UI were better, I at some point stopped using them in favor of Google Inbox. I was going back and forth, but once Inbox let me swipe right to delete, the oomph of Mailbox was lost.

Sad.

I kinda thought this would be happening. Monetizing that is tough - plus "fixing email" is something that sounds appealing, but really isn't something that could happen. Eliminating email is the real goal here.

I don't want to switch back to default Mail app for just cross platform advantages. Please, please someone say "Calm down. We are working on cross platform, zero-inbox focused mail app that will have reasonable amount of bug when we release". Please. :(