https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894509/google-jamboard-whiteboarding-app-graveyard
Google’s will help transition Jamboard users to third-party whiteboard solutions.
They just buy good ideas to monetize the shit out of them without giving users new features, and when the revneu stream dies, they kill the app and but the "next best thing".
Essentially, Google is killing creativity, expansion, usability and profitability for small companies just for the "ad revenue".
I'm de-googling as fast as I can.
Is it really that? Man, this sucks. I thought all these were just R&D projects coming from Google themselves and they shut it when they find out it didn't work the way they hoped.
That was true for some of the early projects. I doubt that they actually develop any of their tech from scratch now. It's way easier to just buy it from someone else
What's that, Google is shutting down another program I've never heard of?
Seriously Google are the worst advertising company in the world which is pretty bad for an advertising company.
"We are shutting down the program down because no one uses it", says company that doesn't tell anybody about any of its products unless it's another chat app.
I swear Google operates more like a startup incubator at times, creating almost entirely seperate companies within itsself that are just expected to handle everything and then when it doesn't work they shut them down
And if it does work, they shut it down anyway, rebuild the product as something YouTube-branded and then abandon it anyway.
Wasn't that the whole point of the creation of Alphabet? That they'd have different business units with their own products?
I use it for work moodboards because I'm a designer working with non designers who only use the Google suite. Feels like I'm one of the few people who will actually miss Jamboard. Guess I'll need to make them all learn Figjam.
It's used a lot in schools, too. Well, schools that use GAFE, anyway. That said, it seems like most school districts locally are switching to O365 instead, I think because of local hosting.
To use GAFE we need parental permission annually, and there's always a few parents that don't consent to their child's data being hosted on American servers or whatever, so you never get 100% of the class with access. Makes it hard to use.
I think bard will be alright because it's an internally produced application and it's basically a chat app anyway which is like their whole thing.
I've used it for language learning and it was a good tool. Does anyone know any FOSS alternatives?
Having weird Google Wave flashbacks. At least, I think that's what it was called... I also did not know about this Jamboard until now though...
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary It’s never a dull day at the Google graveyard — the company has blogged a Workspace update today announcing the end of its collaborative Jamboard whiteboarding software.
According to the blog post, Workspace customer feedback indicated the third-party solutions worked better for them thanks to feature offerings like an infinite canvas size, use case templates, voting, and more.
Google plans to provide “clear paths” to retain and migrate Jam data to FigJam, Lucidspark, and Miro “within just a few clicks.” The resources will be available “well before” the app winds down in late 2024.
Companies and schools with an upcoming renewal may remain subscribers up to that date at a prorated amount if they’d prefer to delay transitioning as long as possible.
Google will work with educational institutions to help compensate them for the old Jamboard devices and connect them with Figma, Lucid Software, and Miro to help them transition.
Update September 28th, 2:38 PM ET: Added a note that Google will work with educational institutions to compensate them for phasing out Jamboard devices.
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