When you share photos with other Carousel users, you can download one another’s photos, share them with other people, and save them to your own albums or device.ĭropbox already has tools for uploading and backing up photos, and it organizes them by month. Ramesh Balakrishnan, Dropbox’s lead engineer for photos, said the app pushes photo recipients to download Carousel to streamline photo management for everyone, rather than scattering pictures across various texts, emails and other locations. The entire thing feels like spam, and to some extent, it is.
Your friends just get a text with a link to a page that shows them a tiny version of the photo with a big button asking them to download Carousel. But it requires the recipient to use Carousel, even if you try to send a photo as a text. You can’t just email someone a photo.Īlso, Carousel’s interface for private sharing is a beautiful, elegant chat. Rather than simply posting a photo to Facebook or Twitter, the app sends a link that users can click to view the photo on a separate page, and from there they can download the high-resolution version. But sharing on social networks has serious drawbacks.
