Sam Oliver
The popular Gmail iOS client "Mailbox" on Tuesday became freely available to all, ditching the reservation system that previously required new users to wait.
The company announced the change on its official blog, opening up the doors and ditching a waiting list of hundreds of thousands of people. The change was made after 10 weeks of behind-the-scenes effort to scale the service.
Mailbox revealed its service is now delivering more than 100 million messages per day, and the company is confident it will be able to handle an influx of new users. The application is a free download available on the iPhone App Store.
The first-come, first serve reservation system disappeared just a day after a the software was update to version 1.2, with enhanced features such as smarter snooze settings and swipe gestures.
Since its debut, Mailbox has filled over 1 million reservations. The Gmail-driven service was acquired by cloud storage giant Dropbox in March for between $50 million and $100 million.
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11 Comments
Does it work with anything other than Google mail yet? Otherwise what's the point?
Does it work with anything other than Google mail yet? Otherwise what's the point?
Yeah, I don't use Gmail at all. Does it do anything for other mail services?
It sucks. You guys arent missing anything.
Well it doesnt suck-suck. But the features arent anything ground breaking. And the built in iOS mail app is much more simple to use.
Its email. You read a message, then delete/forward/reply/move it. Theres not much more too it.
It sucks. You guys arent missing anything.
Well it doesnt suck-suck. But the features arent anything ground breaking. And the built in iOS mail app is much more simple to use.
Its email. You read a message, then delete/forward/reply/move it. Theres not much more too it.
That, and you're giving yet another company complete access to all of your e-mails. I've accepted that Google has everything, but the way Mailbox works, their servers grab your email from Gmail, then send it to your device. Therefore, doubling the chance of your account being compromised or accessed by the company for whatever purpose.
Yeah I agree, if it never supports anything other than gmail, then it will be a worthless app. I'd like to try it, but until it supports iCloud it will never get used by me.