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Important BufferBox Update
- mjn 13y agoHuh, I only hear of them as they're shutting down; I've wanted something like this in the past. Interestingly the German and Danish postal services have been offering such a service for a while, partly out of a desire to reduce their delivery costs (it reduces the number of packages that have to be lugged out to individual doors). Germany: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation Denmark: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fda.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPakkeboksen http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
- jhess2991 13y agoBillion $ company buys an awesome product -> Billion $ company shuts down the awesome product. Typical day. Nothing to see here. Move on.
- nathancahill 13y agoIs there a way (outside of founder stubbornness) to reverse this norm? It's a pity that this has become the trend.
- paddy_m 13y agoPay for products. Use companies that have a real business model.
- nathancahill 13y agoCould the answer be "Charge for products"?
- jonny_eh 13y agoWas BufferBox free? I thought they charged $.
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- mcpherrinm 13y agoOstensibly they did, but early on they had so many coupon codes and promotions that I never once actually paid for it. And then it went free for a year after the Google acquisition.
- n00shie 13y agoI am very disappointed to see this. I have been using BufferBox since the beginning, and it provided immense convenience for both myself, and all of my friends who used the service as well. I was worried that something like this would have happened when they were acquired by Google, and now it has :(
- matkam 13y agoAny alternatives out there?
- ycnewbie 13y agoIn San Francisco, there's Swapbox. Don't know about in Canada
- nchlswu 13y agoI just wish the team woulda got a boost after the acquisition or immediately wrapped into Google Shopping. Shopping was the logical place the product would fit, but it seemed like they weren't given much of a boost after the acquisition and they sort of slowed a bit.
- dabit 13y agoIs this Whatsapp's future? Stay tuned.
- Edmond 13y agoProbably not... way too many users. I think fb would take a lesson from Instagram and leave WhatsApp relatively independent. Besides, only an insane person would pay $19 billion for a company just to shut it down :)
- teraflop 13y agoThis is common enough that there's a blog devoted to it: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
- georgewfraser 13y agoThere's still swapbox, growing fast.
- plumeria 13y ago$37 million dollars to waste...
- brianbreslin 13y agowell I am assuming that google saw some strategic reason for spending that $.
- gillier 13y ago"Important Foo Update" is almost always actually a "Downdate"