The company wants to focus instead on collaboration for enterprise customers. Some functions from mailbox to resurface in the document management app Paper and features of Carousel in the standard Dropbox app.
Dropbox will apparently focus more on re-enterprise services and announced the setting of products Carousel and Mailbox. Mailbox will now close on 26 February. Carousel is Dropbox 'According to 31 May 2016 Announcement still usable. Carousel was a photo-sharing app, mailbox, however promised a modern alternative to the default Inbox.
The Dropbox founder Drew Houston-(now CEO) and Arash Ferdowsi (CTO) apologized in a blog post for the change of heart. Dropbox have components of both products are set elsewhere persist "the concentration of our team increased to collaboration and simplified collaboration.": Some features of Mailbox in the document management app Paper and features of Carousel in the standard Dropbox app.
"With the two we tried to extend the simplicity of Dropbox also on other aspects of the lives of our users," write the founders retrospect. Mailbox was taken over in 2013, when Dropbox tried to extend its range of mobile apps. 2014 surprised then with the release of Carousel, a home-use app. Comparable photo sharing, there were at this time already by Google, Yahoo Flickr and, of course, Facebook's Instagram.
Ahead of Dropbox 'planned IPO is speculated that it wants to settle down with the focus on corporate investors. In November CEO Houston had called a number of currently 150,000 corporate customers. In the last 10 months alone had been added 50,000, more than an unnamed competitor - obviously Box -'ve ever boast.
The Vice-President responsible for product Todd Jackson said in addition, to date there had been 2.6 billion links to Dropbox 'platform. Average hourly 100,000 folders and links would be shared. The initially available by invitation only for business subscribers app Paper called Jackson on the other hand "an entirely new kind of cooperation, but with the use of existing tools".
From the information available to date Paper is a response to competing offers as Box Notes, Google Docs and Evernote and also engages aspects of communication app Slack on. The slogan "collect ideas and work together" is also reminiscent of Microsoft OneNote. However, there is no connection to Facebook's eponymous newsreader application Paper. The app is all Dropbox users are in the course of next year available.
With Dropbox Dropbox Enterprise also had early November an extended range for large enterprises introduced. Houston called it "our most powerful tool collection ever for our largest customers." The tools are used for introducing and scaling of Dropbox, provide enterprise customers as well as additional control and tailored to their support options.
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