Dropbox has decided to close Mailbox and Carousel for good after experiencing several issues that led to the dismal performance and user base of both apps while the file hosting service has planned to concentrate on collaboration instead.
Mailbox was developed by Orchestra and was a free mobile email app for both iOS and Android while Carousel is an image app designed by Dropbox to efficiently store photos and videos to a cloud service.
Likewise, the tech company based in San Francisco, California clarified that collaborating with other companies seems to be the best alternative to having the two apps, according to PC World.
The Mailbox team also noted that the app will soon analyze the processes that lead to the production of so many messages every day instead of trying to solve email problems just by being another email management app.
Back in February 2013, Mailbox was launched and required people to participate in a waiting list before an individual could access the service. After just one month, Dropbox took notice and bought the app.
The app made by Orchestra was initially met with excitement because of features such as a user interface dedicated to swiping on mobile devices and the ability to have a snooze button to remind a person about responding to important messages.
However, other email management services such as Google Inbox, Microsoft Outlook and CloudMagic have already started implementing similar tools.
Similarly, the Carousel development team simply confessed that the photo and video management service did not become popular enough to sustain in the long run. Even with the promise of a cloud service dedicated for images, most of the users still preferred organizing the photos through Dropbox.
In other news, Vodafone has collaborated with Dropbox for a multi-year partnership that aims to debut a promising data and storage management service for small businesses in Australia, according to ZDNet.
Charlie Wood, who is the managing director of Dropbox ANZ, hopes that the cooperation between the two companies will allow even fledgling businesses to take advantage of cloud services to increase business performance.
Globally, there are 400 million Dropbox subscribers and 8 million of them are located in Australia.