Dropbox Acquires Mailbox, Will Accelerate Rollout

Dropbox will become what iCloud should have been. :rolleyes:

Wow. The Mailbox stunt paid off.

To elaborate on the "stunt" comment:

You signed up to a waiting list. Eventually this waiting list got you a code. You put the code in their app and it put in you a massive queue.

If you managed some how to actually get to use the app - you may have been disappointed.
In fact, the Mailbox app angered a lot of people because it requires full access to your Gmail account (which raises privacy concerns), and it requires you to mess with IMAP folder visibility (it needs "All Folder" access).
I've had access for quite a while - but I do not use it, as I refuse to change my IMAP settings to make it work. I already use Gmail (without issue) with other programs.

Apparently all the hype got the attention of the right people.

I think they did a great job of slowly ramping up their infrastructure as they scaled for users. All of the push notifications come from their servers, which amount to millions+ of requests. The story could have easily been, "Mailbox app launches, crashes due to demand" which if you look at Sim City, is easily believable. The problem is, nobody is happy. They do things slowly, making sure they can meet demand, and everyone bitches, they do it fast and the servers crash, and everyone bitches. It was a queue, you got in line and waited, it wasn't like you had to stare at your phone during the queue, it just moved you along while you lived your life.

Now as far as the software, I think it works great. It has completely changed how I work with my Gmail and the app itself is polished and responds instantly. I was actually hoping Apple would purchase this app and incorporate the technology into the default mail app. I guess they can still copy it.

That was fast...hopefully it doesn't end up like sparrow as I really enjoy using mailbox.

cool hopefully dropbox lifts the stupid 5 mailbox limitation

Yep, because mailbox has to serve the people with more than 5 gmail accounts first before they can let anyone else in the queue. Right?

It needs to support exchange (maybe impossible with their delivery scheme), iPads and landscape.

If they don't quickly innovate, they'll be copied, improved on, and fade away.

I'd sooner Dropbox was involved than Google.

Maybe we will finally see an UPDATE to this app...........

The app just came out a few short weeks ago. What update do you think they "finally" need to do? Finally makes it sound like the app has been around for years without any updates.

Huh

Time to give a decent update to Mailbox ...
more email providers and the option to change colors and backgrounds is appreciate!

Yeah, backgrounds and color changing is a HUGE priority.

Really?

Any capable IMAP client would work. And, as an added bonus, an IMAP client won't require you to route all your email through some shady development company to use for who knows what purpose...

Its a mail-app based on the "0 inbox" paradigm. You don't want an ampty inbox, so you shouldn't use it.

some shady development company to use for who knows what purpose
yeah, wow.

This is like complaining about the non-usefulness of deep-freezers on antarctica.