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Obligatory Killed by Google.
When you only hear about a product because of its cancellation, you can understand why.
My last job was all on the Google ecosystem. They bought like 10 of these things and to be honest, they were a blast during Meetings, but that was pre-covid. Pandemic really effed the office and pushed everyone remote, and I think they were lying around gathering dust when I left.
Google has a lot of great products like this. They’re just mismanaged. I’m sure if the marketing could have figured out a way to marry this with the YouTube brand like every other Google product, they would have.
Yeah, I have worked with a few ex-Googlers, great programmers and techies, poor product owners/managers. It’s like they forget how humans think.
I deployed a few of these. They were 10 years behind the curve. The monitor weighed as much as a flat panel from 15 years ago, the stand was fucking HUGE making it hard to move. The camera and microphone were an afterthought and not worth using (the mic would pick up every little touch on the Jamboard). The entire thing felt like it was built for design first rather than function
We used Jamboard at a previous job. It was atrocious. Very quickly was replaced with one of the huge Surface devices, which, due to just running a real OS, let people use the whiteboard tools built into other conferencing tools, as well as figma.
And this company was almost exclusively conferencing with Google hangouts (whatever name it was going by that particular day). So it wasn’t an issue of mixing services.
Guess I’ll add that to the list.
In all honesty I’m impressed it lasted 8 years. Google have killed bigger projects in much shorter times.
I am not surprised. Into Google’s graveyard it goes.
Another one added to the pile
Lmao I was about to look into using that thing for work
Seems FigJam is somewhat popular in the space? It’s an Adobe product now since they acquired Figma. There’s also Miro and LucidChart that are popular
Figma deez nuts
That’s why Google announces the end of things unlike other companies who will just silently let them fall into obscurity. They don’t want to mislead people
Never even heard of this. Basically every school over here (that I know of) uses ViewSonic Smart Boards that run Android, too, although with a nightmare of a launcher on top… They’re probably not even that much cheaper
Damn never heard of this. SMART boards were where it was at many of the schools in my area, and although they are no longer a Canadian company, they seem to at least somewhat believe in the longevity of their products, unlike Google.
fun name now i can use it
