Dropbox To Shutdown Mailbox, Carousel In Q1 2016

Dropbox, Inc., the San Francisco-based company that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud and client software, has announced that it will be shutting down Carousel and Mailbox.

The company acquired Mailbox in 2013, believing it was making mobile email better. The following year, Carousel was launched to create a new way to experience and share photos. The company increased its focus on collaboration and simplifying the way people work together in the past few months and hence has decided to discontinue both of these services.

“Mailbox will be shut down on February 26th, 2016, and Carousel will be shut down on March 31st, 2016”, Dropbox co-founders Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi wrote in the blog post.

However, Dropbox said that it will be will be using whatever it has learned from Mailbox to build new ways to communicate and collaborate on Dropbox.

“Mailbox hasn’t been abandoned. It is still being developed while we determine which direction is best. As our developers don’t share there roadmaps with support, I’m unable to share them with you. If there is anything else I can help you with please let me know”, TechCrunch quoted Dropbox’s note sent to a reader.

With the shutdown of Carousel as a standalone app, it will be returning to a single Dropbox photo experience. Users will still be able to view and share their photos in the Photos tab views on the web and in the Dropbox mobile apps. In the coming months, some key features of Carousel will be integrated into the core Dropbox app.

“All the photos in your Carousel timeline will remain safe in your Dropbox where they’ve always been”, it said.