What I am saying is that Mailbox was a great product, yes.<p>Looking at it from the outside, it seemed that Dropbox initially just continued the initial product velocity that existed from before the purchase.<p>After a while it seemed that the development lost steam, features were lagging and it seemed that they lost interest.<p>I am sure it wasn&#x27;t a very well architected service and beyond that growth was &quot;controlled&quot; by the invite system (which ironically only fueled the growth).<p>The Dropbox acquisition had a lot of potential, mainly in fueling the growth by adding people&#x2F;servers and ops knowledge.<p>So yeah, they ditched the invite system and a lot more people were using the product but what&#x27;s that worth if the end decision is to drop the product all together?<p>What I&#x27;m failing to understand here (and I will admit it&#x27;s due to non-existent investment knowledge) is what did Dropbox get out of the 100mm paid on the product and what led the decision to drop it now.