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Never used it myself, but it looks like a useful product. Shame to have it disappear if there are still enough people who would buy it.
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> What if there was a corporation that bought out every entrant involving new technology (not necessarily monopolizing their already dominant verticals, but other new inventions/ideas)? They either have a winner, or they stifle innovation in corresponding area for the lifetime of any associated patents. There are companies like this: patent trolls. That's why the big tech companies all have patent sharing agreements…
It sounds like a corporation could impede the humanity/progress of countries that respect these patents by patent_lifetime * number_of_patents so long as they have the money to do so.
I wonder in these situations: why don't they spin it off / sell it to some other smaller company that doesn't need a Billion Users to succeed? Never used it myself, but it looks like a useful product. Shame to have it disappear if there are still enough people who would buy it.
This 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.
Mural has a free tier. I did not used it much but was nice.
My PM will be in shambles. How will we ever do retrospectives now???
This 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/
I wonder in these situations: why don't they spin it off / sell it to some other smaller company that doesn't need a Billion Users to succeed? Never used it myself, but it looks like a useful product. Shame to have it disappear if there are still enough people who would buy it.
Probably it is too tightly integrated with other google internal services to be able to give the code to a third party and have them operate the business.
I wonder in these situations: why don't they spin it off / sell it to some other smaller company that doesn't need a Billion Users to succeed? Never used it myself, but it looks like a useful product. Shame to have it disappear if there are still enough people who would buy it.
Probably it is too tightly integrated with other google internal services to be able to give the code to a third party and have them operate the business.
Google internal services are always being rewritten, and code migrated from the old version of the service to the new one. If nobody is willing to migrate an externally visible product, it has to sunset at the same time that the internal service does.
This philosophy does wonders for internal code quality and consistency. It also makes people outside the company wonder whether they should trust Google's public offerings.
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Probably it is too tightly integrated with other google internal services to be able to give the code to a third party and have them operate the business.
In some senses it is a bit of an indictment on Google's cloud offering that their teams don't build it on those.
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Probably it is too tightly integrated with other google internal services to be able to give the code to a third party and have them operate the business.
In some senses it is a bit of an indictment on Google's cloud offering that their teams don't build it on those.