Mailbox, the extremely popular new gmail client for the iPhone, has been acquired by Dropbox. The announcement was made on their website earlier today. The interest in Mailbox continues to grow at a staggering rate since launching just last month, delivering over 60 million emails a day. By joining Dropbox the Mailbox team hopes to be able to scale it’s service and roll put new features to it’s users at a faster pace. If you still are unsure about Mailbox, checkout my review from last month.
We can’t wait to put Mailbox in the hands of everyone who wants it. This means not only continuing to scale the service, but also including support for more email providers and mobile devices. Add to that a host of new features and we’ve got a LOT of work to do, certainly more than our current team of 14 can handle. We need to grow and we need to grow thoughtfully, with top-notch people who share our goals and values.
Enter Dropbox, the team from San Francisco who helps over 100M people bring their photos, docs, and videos with them anywhere. They’re a profoundly talented bunch who build great tools that make work frictionless, and Mailbox fits Dropbox’s mission like a glove. Plus, they’ve got a ton of experience scaling services and are experts at handling people’s data with care. In short, Dropbox is our kind of company.
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…
I still enjoying using Mailbox, and I’m definitely a daily Dropbox user as well. Hopefully the extra muscle and experience Dropbox can provide will not only help Mailbox deliver it’s product to all those still waiting in line, but also provide its growing user base with a reliable and safe service.
Did you ever sign-up for Mailbox? If so, have you enjoyed using the gmail client, or are you over the hype? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
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