Another day, another product joining the Google graveyard. On the upside, this time it’s not a messaging app.
From The Verge:
"You might remember Google had a $5,000 Jamboard whiteboarding meeting room display — well, that’s also discontinued. The Jamboard hardware will no longer receive software updates on September 30th, 2024, and its license subscriptions will expire the same day.
“Then users will have until December 31st, 2024, to back up Jam their files, and on that date, Google will cut off access and begin permanently deleting files.”
Pity the schools, universities, and businesses that paid Google $5000 for a “smart” whiteboard, only to now be told their files will be deleted.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/28/23894509/google-jamboard-whiteboarding-app-graveyard
Any organisation that invests in physical hardware that requires cloud to work is bonkers. Those whiteboards don’t need cloud. And google is too big to care for long term customer satisfaction.
Yeah, hearing this turns me off even more for the Chromebook.
Please someone correct me if I’m wrong in that being pretty much entirely cloud based.
I don’t know about ChromeOS but the good news with the majority of Chromebooks I know about is that you can still install linux on them if you want. The bad news is that at their price point you might as well just buy a used or new but low end laptop if you’re gonna do that.
Obviously that’s not good news is you explicitly want chromeos but the hardware at least won’t be bricked if they decide to trash their chromeos services.