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Literally, I said on a meeting last week, we should be stopping using it, I feel like Google is going to kill it soon. We are have gotten to the point where we can smell dead.

Awesome.

Obligatory Killed by Google.

At which point will we collectively just understand that cloud-driven hardware is practically just a time ticking e-waste bomb? The board itself is a neat idea, probably useful too, but even if this weren't Google, I'd be dead anyway, the moment the brand is done messing with their software

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.

Another one added to the pile

I am not surprised. Into Google's graveyard it goes.

Lmao I was about to look into using that thing for work

When you only hear about a product because of its cancellation, you can understand why.

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.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The digital whiteboard could be drawn on using the included stylus or your fingers, and it even came with a big plastic "eraser" that would remove items.

The SoC was an Nvidia Jetson TX1 (a quad-core Cortex-A57 CPU attached to a beefy Maxwell GPU), and it had a built-in camera, microphone, and speakers for video calls.

People not in front of the touchscreen could launch the "Jamboard app" instead, letting them get in on the whiteboard action remotely, complete with live handwriting.

While Jamboard users make up a small portion of our Workspace customer base, we understand that this change will impact some of you, and we’re committed to helping you transition..." Yes, that's right, "transition" is usually not something you have to consider when a company kills a hardware product, but the whole cloud system is going down, too, so all of your existing $5,000 whiteboards will soon be useless and you won't be able to open the cloud data on other devices.

Google seems to feel particularly bad for the schools that bought into this, saying, "We will also work directly with educational institutions to compensate them for their Jamboard devices."

People often ask about a recurring revenue stream when predicting what products will live and die, but even a $600-per-year fee attached to every sale wasn't enough to keep Jamboard running.

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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.

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.

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

The what?

fun name now i can use it