Dropbox Carousel
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{{Infobox software
| name = Dropbox Carousel
| title = Dropbox Carousel
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| developer = Dropbox
| released = {{Start date and age|2014|04|09}}
| discontinued = yes
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| operating system = Android, iOS, web
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| genre = Photo storage and sharing
| website = {{URL|https://carousel.dropbox.com/}}
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Dropbox Carousel was a photo and video{{Cite news |last=Newton |first=Casey |author-link=Casey Newton |date=April 9, 2014 |title=Dropbox unveils Carousel for organizing your photos and videos |url=https://www.theverge.com/2014/4/9/5594288/dropbox-unveils-carousel-for-organizing-your-photos-and-videos-online |accessdate=October 30, 2015 |website=The Verge |publisher=Vox Media}} management app offered by Dropbox.{{cite web | url=https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/20/dropbox-carousel-ipad-web/ | title=Dropbox Carousel comes to iPad and web today, Android tablets soon | publisher=Engadget | date=20 November 2014 | accessdate=20 October 2015 | author=Molen, Brad}} The third-party native app, available on Android and iOS,{{Cite web|url = https://www.engadget.com/2014/12/09/dropbox-carousel-free-up-space/|title = Dropbox's Carousel app now frees up phone storage for you
|date = December 9, 2014|accessdate = October 28, 2015|website = |publisher = Engadget|last = Lee|first = Nicole}} allowed users to store, manage, and organize photos.{{Cite web|url = http://www.macworld.com/article/2988551/ios/iphone-6s-live-photos-turn-dead-flat-on-dropbox-flickr-and-google-photos.html|title = iPhone 6s Live Photos turn dead-flat on Dropbox, Flickr and Google Photos|date = 16 October 2015|accessdate = 25 October 2015|website = iPhone 6s Live Photos turn dead-flat on Dropbox, Flickr and Google Photos|publisher = Macworld|last = Raymundo|first = Oscar}} Photos were organized by date, time and event{{Cite web|url = https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/20/9576713/google-photos-100-million-users|title = Google Photos hits 100 million monthly users after five months|date = October 20, 2015|accessdate = October 28, 2015|website = |publisher = The Verge|last = Statt|first = Nick}} and backed up on Dropbox. It competed in this space against other online photo storage services such as Google's Google Photos, Apple's iCloud, and Yahoo's Flickr. 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”.
History
Mailbox founder, Gentry Underwood unveiled Carousel at a gathering in San Francisco on April 9, 2014. Much of the features in Carousel come from Snapjoy, a photo start-up, that Dropbox acquired on December 19, 2012.{{Cite web|url = https://www.theverge.com/2012/12/19/3785296/dropbox-acquires-snapjoy-photo-aggregation-and-sharing-service|title = Dropbox acquires Snapjoy, a photo aggregation and sharing service|date = December 19, 2012|accessdate = October 30, 2015|website = Dropbox acquires Snapjoy, a photo aggregation and sharing service|publisher = The Verge|last = Sottek|first = T.C.}} 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. The acquisitions would help demonstrate its expansive product offerings pitching potential profitability to investors.
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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/7/9862470/dropbox-shutting-down-mailbox-carousel-apps|title=Dropbox is shutting down its Mailbox and Carousel apps|work=The Verge|access-date=2018-01-25}}
Features
Carousel prompted users to free local storage once it had synced and backed-up local photos to the cloud. Flashback was a feature (enabled by default) that showed past photos or videos taken the same day, a year, or some years back. Flashback used an algorithm designed to identify human faces - resulting in greater likelihood of the user's picture or people in the user's close circle appearing. A scrollable timeline, which was earlier a scroll wheel, at the bottom let the user scroll to photo(s) at a specific date with a finger swipe.
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