My PM will be in shambles. How will we ever do retrospectives now???
Google Ending Support for Jamboard
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Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard
#22This has been a long time coming. My company owns a Jamboard (the hardware). They were selling it hard when we bought it. We got to use it for a year before the service contract expired. All the major features stopped working, there was no way to renew online and the salespeople were no longer answering phone calls or emails.
So now we have an expensive, heavy albatross on our hands. Really makes you want to avoid depending on Google for anything again.
Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard
#23This touches on a fundamental problem with the current electronic-whiteboard market: poor cross-vendor compatibility.
It adds seriously risk to a widespread deployment in any organization.
Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard
#24Oh goddamnit - I really liked Jamboard and used it tons for myself and my team. Guess we have to actually Google for alternatives.
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#26[stub for offtopicness] (come on you guys, anything this repetitive is off topic on HN. we want curious conversation here...)
Why do they even make new products at this point
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#27[stub for offtopicness] (come on you guys, anything this repetitive is off topic on HN. we want curious conversation here...)
Typical Google.
Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard
#28This is a bummer, I use Jamboard (the software not the hardware) to draw diagrams during Zoom calls and send the link to participants after. I mostly use a Wacom tablet to do the actual drawing. Any good free alternatives out there ? Edit: The proposed alternatives they mention in the update (FigJam, Lucidspark, and Miro) really don't fit that workflow.
I've been enjoying Excalidraw a lot[^1]. It lets you share diagrams without accounts and you can even collaborate in real-time.
[^1]: https://excalidraw.com/
Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard
#29This is a bummer, I use Jamboard (the software not the hardware) to draw diagrams during Zoom calls and send the link to participants after. I mostly use a Wacom tablet to do the actual drawing. Any good free alternatives out there ? Edit: The proposed alternatives they mention in the update (FigJam, Lucidspark, and Miro) really don't fit that workflow.
TLDraw is really nice: http://tldraw.com
As is Excalidraw
Re: Google Ending Support for Jamboard
#30My job is all in on google. Gmail, meets, gcp, everything. Never heard of jamboard. We'd probably have been using it too, if we ever knew it existed! How is it that closure announcements are when we find out about these things? Especially from a company whose revenue comes from advertising?
We have these scattered around my offices (a large pharma/biotech). They go mostly unused. The idea is good. But it was outside of google's wheelhouse (they have been traditionally weak in consumer hardware except for phones).