A few days ago Mailbox, the unique and incredibly successful iOS email app, announced it had been acquired by Dropbox. The response from the tech community was an ostensibly unanimous declaration of approval. Generally, acquisitions of hopeful new startups are often seen as a conclusion to the underdog story, yet today’s news is viewed more as a continuation for that of Dropbox.
Ingrid Lunden for TechCrunch analyzed what this move means for the cloud storage company: