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Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by throw_m239339 »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #119
myko wrote: post #110

This device, like Stadia, was actually pretty great/amazing. Just incredible to see Google fuck these things up from a marketing/sales/strategy perspective. Amazing technology turned to (expensive) dust.

stadia with take-hands-off-controller before visually updating was amazing? it was one of the quickest plug pulls for a reason

Stadia was amazing, what made no sense is the business model. They should have operated like GeForce Now. You could have paid a subscription only to run the games in the cloud and buy the game on separate shops.

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by jasonjayr »

endisneigh wrote: post #118
nerdjon wrote: post #101

How people continue to trust buying anything from Google is just beyond me. I am glad that they are doing something for schools, but this is just ridiculous. Shutting down a free service that you didn't have to buy into, fine whatever. It still sucks but at least you didn't invest in a platform. But if you are going to make a physical device you cannot treat it like you treat everything else.

what product or service has lasted indefinitely? Google will compensate those who adopted it, life goes on.

I can still run DOS 6.22 right now. Probably even older software.

In fact, just about most 'owned' software that does not depend on the cloud can be run for ever. Especially software that was sold as a perpetual license.

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by Foobar8568 »

cj wrote: post #121

I bought a Jamboard for our small 20 person half remote company before Covid. Jamboard was definitely ahead of its time. Giant (bigger than your living room TV) touch screen monitor with a camera, speakers and microphone built in. I think this is an example where the market need is clearly there (does anyone like the state of remote brainstorming/remote whiteboarding?) but Google is deciding not to capture the market…

Microsoft has (had?) a similar product back in 2014, so surely before, my client used them in all their meeting rooms and senior managers offices.

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by slantedview »

cj wrote: post #121

I bought a Jamboard for our small 20 person half remote company before Covid. Jamboard was definitely ahead of its time. Giant (bigger than your living room TV) touch screen monitor with a camera, speakers and microphone built in. I think this is an example where the market need is clearly there (does anyone like the state of remote brainstorming/remote whiteboarding?) but Google is deciding not to capture the market…

The Google meet executives must have more internal clout than the Jamboard executive(s). And so it goes.

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by briffle »

justapassenger wrote: post #120
nerdjon wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't really matter how many people were affected, the point is that people made an investment (and not a small one) and its being shut down. And it isn't like this is the first hardware that Google has abandoned, but they turn it into ewaste since it's tied to the cloud.

It’s being shutdown after 8 years. That’s not a bad lifespan. Most electronics are obsolete but that age and replaced with new ones. Especially at businesses - it’s already amortized by then and reached end of life. Google sucks, but I think you’re blowing this out of proportion.

I wonder if the OP is going to complain about all our skype based conferencing hardware that has become obsolete over the last few years?

https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA34763/which-skype-enabled...

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by solarkraft »

It's crazy to me that people keep willingly buying hardware that requires a service to work. You have a high up-front cost, yet you're at someone else's mercy. That's the worst of buying and renting combined.

Obviously it isn't very profitable to keep supporting a product you've already sold at the moment, so something must be done to make it more attractive.

At the very least there should be a support commitment which marks the life time of the device. Stated upfront and comparable before purchase, a bit like those EU energy efficiency labels.

8 years might be a fine life span for some customers. But they should be aware of it in advance. And they should be motivated to ask "and what do we do with it afterwards?".

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by briffle »

jasonjayr wrote: post #132
endisneigh wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what product or service has lasted indefinitely? Google will compensate those who adopted it, life goes on.

I can still run DOS 6.22 right now . Probably even older software. In fact, just about most 'owned' software that does not depend on the cloud can be run for ever. Especially software that was sold as a perpetual license.

You can run DOS 6.22 on brand new hardware, with an EFI bios? Or on a pc you pulled from a closet or a VM?

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by endisneigh »

jasonjayr wrote: post #132
endisneigh wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what product or service has lasted indefinitely? Google will compensate those who adopted it, life goes on.

I can still run DOS 6.22 right now . Probably even older software. In fact, just about most 'owned' software that does not depend on the cloud can be run for ever. Especially software that was sold as a perpetual license.

Jamboard inherently required the cloud, so I'm not sure what your point is.

Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard

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Post by jjkaczor »

Foobar8568 wrote: post #133
cj wrote: post #121

I bought a Jamboard for our small 20 person half remote company before Covid. Jamboard was definitely ahead of its time. Giant (bigger than your living room TV) touch screen monitor with a camera, speakers and microphone built in. I think this is an example where the market need is clearly there (does anyone like the state of remote brainstorming/remote whiteboarding?) but Google is deciding not to capture the market…

Microsoft has (had?) a similar product back in 2014, so surely before, my client used them in all their meeting rooms and senior managers offices.

They still do, it's called the "Surface Hub" line, currently at "Surface Hub 2" - integrates with Teams and other apps.

However - recent changes in "management" and direction with Surface hardware products/division may impact this in the near future.

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