So Will I Be Right?

As a quick follow-up to my recent post about Mailbox, Dropbox just announced that they acquired Mailbox in order to take advantage of their much-buzzed about email app. I can say that I was right: Mailbox went the Sparrow route (and quickly). Teaming with Dropbox - and gaining access to their 100 million users - is wonderful news for the team. Now it remains to be seen whether they can create a sticky, differentiated email client. And whether Gmail plays nice in the sandbox with one of its top Google drive competitors by ensuring smooth syncing for the folks who adopt the Mailbox client over their native (and rapidly improving) Gmail app. And whether more than a statistically insignificant percentage of email users (because 1.5mm out of 3.5bn worldwide accounts is still pretty small) will care enough to adopt the app with gusto.