Mailbox (app)

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Mailbox

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Basic data

developer Orchestra, Inc.
Dropbox, Inc.
Publishing year 2013
operating system iOS , Android , OS X
programming language Objective-C
category E-mail program
License proprietary
German speaking Yes
Others Discontinued February 26, 2016Template: Infobox software / maintenance / other
mailboxapp.com

Mailbox was a free app for managing email . It was developed by the US startup Orchestra, Inc. especially for mobile use in smartphones and has been available free of charge for the Apple iOS operating system since February 7, 2013 , and later also for Android and OS X (as beta ). The app was discontinued on February 26, 2016.

history

Without a waiting list, the developer would have had problems maintaining the service at first. According to VentureBeat, there were already 380,000 interested parties on the waiting list before the publication, a month after the publication there were 1 million. Just one day after the app was published in the App Store , Mailbox was in second place among the free apps.

Because of its innovative features, Mailbox achieved a high level of attention from numerous blogs and articles in specialist magazines and was bought by the cloud provider Dropbox in March 2013 .

On December 7, 2015, Dropbox announced that the service would be discontinued.

Functions

One of the new features was that messages could be sorted and filtered by swiping your finger right or left without actually deleting them. In particular, the ability to reappear e-mails by tapping on a specific icon (e.g. a coffee cup) at a specific time (e.g. the next morning for breakfast) attracted hundreds of thousands of interested parties.

criticism

After the app was released, initially only Gmail accounts from the US company Google could be used. Since December 2013, the app has also supported iCloud mail accounts, but the iCloud password was transferred to the Mailbox server during setup, which was not necessary for Gmail accounts.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leo Becker: Dropbox sends email client Mailbox into retirement. In: Mac & i. Heise , December 8, 2015, accessed on July 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ John Brownlee: Mailbox By Orchestra: The Best Email App We've Ever Used [Review]. Cult of Mac, February 7, 2013, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sean Ludwig: Mailbox CEO says insane 380K person wait list kept app from crashing today. VentureBeat, February 8, 2013, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Seth Fiegerman: Mailbox Email App Finally Released on iPhone (Sort Of). Mashable , February 7, 2013, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  5. ^ Darrell Etherington, Dropbox Buys Mailbox, All 13 Employees Joining And App Will Remain Separate. TechCrunch , March 15, 2013, accessed July 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Leo Becker: Dropbox's mailbox app supports iCloud e-mail. In: Mac & i. Heise, December 18, 2013, accessed on July 29, 2019 .