Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
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Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#2This is literally just a picture and a vague blurb.
It is kind of unusual but in this specific case you may be better off with the Engadget article than the official site:
https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/25/google-jamboard-digital-...
Seems like it will cost "under" $6K. But since they're using $6K as their pinned price, I'm guessing over $5K.
Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#3If my old employer, SMART, hadn't been acquired by Foxconn, I imagine its stock would have plummeted on this news.
Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#4This is one of the things where I think remote work can fall down: standing around a shared space to easily quickly scribble and share ideas. Video gets you close, and lots of tools have some kind of sharable space you can write on or draw on with a mouse, but none of them have ever been as effective as a whiteboard for me when you're trying to quickly explain a concept or structure.
Actual product looks annoying though. It's a quite specific kind of team that wants to drop $5000+ per screen, and it's definitely not small fully remote startups (where doing that for everybody is both very expensive and super inconvenient), even though that's where this would be most awesome.
Might try and have a go soon with just cheap graphics tablets and existing web tools though, or just normal android tablets. Almost the same experience, at a tiny fraction of the price.
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#5A 40-50" (diagonal) "whiteboard" is still very small. I have a 4'x10' whiteboard right behind me, and a 6'x4' to my immediate right, and I'm always running out of room.
Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#6Does it come with a gallon of Windex?
Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#7This is literally just a picture and a vague blurb. It is kind of unusual but in this specific case you may be better off with the Engadget article than the official site: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/25/google-jamboard-digital-... Seems like it will cost "under" $6K. But since they're using $6K as their pinned price, I'm guessing over $5K.
Here's the Google blog post detailing the product: https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/jamboard-whiteboard...
Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#8If my old employer, SMART, hadn't been acquired by Foxconn, I imagine its stock would have plummeted on this news.
Man, I use these SMART boards at work (teacher) and is it just me or the software sucks (especially the usb dongle with the software in it)
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#9I can't be sure, but it seems like they are just going to release a big Wacom tablet and add real-time collaboration for the price of a 2013 SMART car. That isn't a fair comparison, as it is unlikely corporations will be comparing a fleet of used smart cars to collaboration workstations in their budget. WTF is the usecase for this? 10-11k for people to draw on the same canvas in different locations? I think it is actually quite cool, but the pricepoint is absurd and it is an open question how the real-time sync will work between >1 device.
I am half serious when I say that this product seems to be exclusively marketed at apple engineers & designers to lazy to walk up the stairs to collaborate with each other.
Re: Jamboard – The whiteboard reimagined for collaboration in the cloud
#10This is literally just a picture and a vague blurb. It is kind of unusual but in this specific case you may be better off with the Engadget article than the official site: https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/25/google-jamboard-digital-... Seems like it will cost "under" $6K. But since they're using $6K as their pinned price, I'm guessing over $5K.
Okay, so they're selling hardware here. It was hard to tell! I thought it might just be the overglorified collaborative whiteboard software, of which there is already much out there.