Mailbox took the iOS email community by storm through it simple yet effective gesture-based UI and a whole rethought of how email is supposed to be. Following up to it’s success cloud storage service Dropbox has announced acquiring Mailbox for an undisclosed amount.
Mailbox has been a huge success. They have had to scale their service capacity by 2000 times and are currently delivering an astounding 60 million emails a day. Some might say that Dropbox and Mailbox are a match made in heaven, hell they even share the same surname!
The Dropbox team is very excited to welcome Mailbox and the merger could be very promising.
Like many of you, when we discovered Mailbox we fell in love—it was simple, delightful, and beautifully engineered. Many have promised to help us with our overflowing inboxes, but the Mailbox team actually delivered.
After spending time with Gentry, Scott, and the team, it became clear that their calling was the same as ours at Dropbox—to solve life’s hidden problems and reimagine the things we do every day. We all quickly realized that together we could save millions of people a lot of pain.
-Dropbox Blog
A blind guess would say that Dropbox aims to bring file attachment integration to Mailbox in reaction to Google’s integration of Drive with Gmail. Other than that we’ll just have to wait and see what exactly these two teams have in mind.
Rather than grow Mailbox on our own, we’ve decided to join forces with Dropbox and build it out together. To be clear, Mailbox is not going away. The product needs to grow fast, and we believe that joining Dropbox is the best way to make that happen. Plus, imagine what cool things you could do if your Mailbox was connected to your Dropbox…
So hold onto your hats, because our time together is just getting started. And thanks again for joining us on the journey to transform the inbox. We’re really excited for what’s ahead.
-Mailbox Blog