> I'm just trying to get a picture of what was the setup before. The setup before was Skyping with a spare laptop or smart TV, and often having to call each ot

> I'm just trying to get a picture of what was the setup before. The setup before was Skyping with a spare laptop or smart TV, and often having to call each other on cell phones because the service isn't working. There's huge value to good integration. It doesn't matter if the specs don't compete to building your own with a projector, computer, custom webcam. Because no one else has actually built it, and if you do assemble it yourself, do you want your org coming to you for troubleshooting constantly? Are you going to build it for every company you want to chat with remotely? In the old HN thread where Dropbox was announced, you see a lot of the same sentiment. "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by..." But the benefit isn't just having your own smart whiteboard. It's having a smart whiteboard that plays well with people who aren't able to build one themselves, and plays well with other services.