Dropbox Shuts Down Mailbox App

Mailbox:

When the Mailbox team joined Dropbox in 2013, we shared a passion for simplifying the way people work together. And solving the email problem seemed like a strong complement to the challenges Dropbox was already tackling.

But as we deepened our focus on collaboration, we realized there’s only so much an email app can do to fundamentally fix email. 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.

Brent Simmons:

Apps that get acquired don’t last. Apps that don’t get acquired also don’t last. (Exceptions are rare.)

★ Monday, 7 December 2015