Dropbox Carousel
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| Dropbox Carousel | |
|---|---|
| Developer | Dropbox |
| Initial release | April 9, 2014[1] |
| Operating system | Android, iOS, web |
| Type | Photo storage and sharing |
| Website | carousel |
Dropbox Carousel was a photo and video[1] management app offered by Dropbox.[2] The third-party native app, available on Android and iOS,[3] allowed users to store, manage, and organize photos.[4] Photos were organized by date, time and event[5] and backed up on Dropbox.[1] It competed in this space against other online photo storage services such as Google's Google Photos, Apple's iCloud, and Yahoo's Flickr.[5] Chris Lee, Dropbox's head of product development for Carousel described the app as an add-on to Dropbox, a “dedicated experience for photos and videos” and a space for “reliving personal memories”.[5]
Mailbox founder, Gentry Underwood unveiled Carousel at a gathering in San Francisco on April 9, 2014.[1] Much of the features in Carousel come from Snapjoy, a photo start-up, that Dropbox acquired on December 19, 2012.[6] When Carousel was launched, it marked amongst many others, a series of acquisitions made by Dropbox to prep up before opening its stock for public offering.[1] The acquisitions would help demonstrate its expansive product offerings pitching potential profitability to investors.[1]
In December 2015, Dropbox announced that Carousel would be shut down and some Carousel features would be integrated into the primary Dropbox application. On March 31, 2016, Carousel was deactivated.[7]