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Dropbox closes Mailbox and Carousel services / applications - Applications that can take their place

A few years ago I "admired" with amazement how Yahoo! launches services and then closes them in a few months or 2-3 years. Defective development and pathetic marketing. They sent thick emails in which they expressed their sincere regrets and gave migration solutions to other similar service providers or even to some of their own services, including those that were suddenly closed. Does anyone remember now Yahoo! GeoCitiesYahoo! 360 or Yahoo! meme? Few today use the existing services of Yahoo !. Trust in their ideas to develop both the Yahoo! Mail as well as Yahoo! Messenger pale in front of him Google (gmail), Microsoft (Outlook Mail) and Facebook (online community and messenger).

The other day I received two emails from Dropbox, informing me that two services are going to be closed. Carousel and Mailbox. Purchased services / Dropbox launched in 2013 and 2014, targeting mobile users Android si iOS.

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Carousel It proved to be a very good Photo manager and an option synchronization si Sorting photos made with mobile phone. Application separate from Dropbox but which directly used an account for this service. Personally, after installing Carousel on iOS, I gave up the Dropbox application. Upload and sync very good photos taken with iPhone, Photo albums easy to create and manage, a very quick and simple "timeline" in which I found photos in chronological order.
Dropbox says about the service and the It will be closed on March 31 2016 and that some functions of the Carousel application will be implemented in the Dropbox mobile application, in the "Photos" tab. With the mention (in settings) that this feature will not be present on iOS either. So who wants to continue using Dropbox as a manager and photo synchronization solution for mobiles, sell their iPhone and buy an Android.
For iPhone and iPad users, there are solutions similar to the Carousel application Photos of Apple, which with iCloud Photo Library activated will save all pictures and files in Apple's iCloud and the application Google PhotosWhich is a good substitute Carousel, with similar functions. OneDrive Microsoft is a solution to consider. Like Carousel, Photos and Google Photos, OneDrive offers synchronization solutions to photo and video files captured with iPhone or iPad, also offering sorting solutions in albums and labeling (Tags) Files.

Regarding the closure of the service and Mailbox application withdrawal pe February 26 2016, here it is a little more complicated to find a migration solution. There are providers that offer similar services, but it is an application used primarily for business si collaborative office, requires a bit more attention in making a decision. Dropbox somewhat offers its own solution for communication and collaboration through the service dropbox Paper (which is currently in development and who wants to test it needs an invitation), but who can trust that after a while there will be withdrawn this service?
As a solution to replace the Mailbox application, in our opinion it is Outlook Mail. An application developed by Microsoft well enough lately and offers all the features of Mailbox.

It remains to be seen what steps Dropbox will take and what "surprises" they have in store for us in 2016. Personally, I have migrated to OneDrive and iCloud. :-)

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