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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
by cj 3y ago
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.
It looks like their strategy here is to promote Miro. They’ve been pushing the Google Meet + Miro native integration heavily for the past couple of weeks. Seeing this announcement, it makes sense why.
- Foobar8568 3y agoMicrosoft has (had?) a similar product back in 2014, so surely before, my client used them in all their meeting rooms and senior managers offices.
- jjkaczor 3y agoThey 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.
- eddythompson80 3y agoApparently they just announced Surface Hub 3
- slantedview 3y agoThe Google meet executives must have more internal clout than the Jamboard executive(s). And so it goes.
- joezydeco 3y agoI kind of wonder how many companies bought these before COVID and kept paying google throughout the pandemic. And now the accountants are back and wondering why they're still paying.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoDoes that work as a whiteboard you can scribble on with the results shown in real time on N other devices synchronised with it? As the one thing I miss from the office is a shared whiteboard. Quite sloppy conflict resolution would work out adequately, people would expect a mess when they scribble on the same area. Not this one obviously as google are shutting it down, but if the tech works someone else is probably selling the same thing. Or will be shortly.
- fragmede 3y agoYes! Price aside, if everyone has the hardware, it's like having a whiteboard that everyone can stand at and draw on and "discuss" (argue) over which boxes should go where.