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0 pointsgdcbe2y ago0 comments

Still. Our company only bought it half a year ago, at least 3 of them. So no, we won’t get to enjoy it for 8 years…

Edit: nvm, my CISO just confirmed me that this apparently “only” affects first generation users. We have the newer Board 65 types that will continue to be supported for the things we use it.

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echelon2y ago

My last company bought a bunch of these just before the pandemic to help facilitate working with remote offices. All the big conference rooms had one.

Nobody wanted to use them, and they went completely unused to my knowledge.

agrippanux2y ago

This product seems like the kind of thing a company would buy, it would be tried out in a few meetings, then everyone would go back to driving the meeting room's mounted TV with a laptop.

echelon2y ago

Our CEO later came out to our office for a tour -- something he'd never done -- , and I have a funny anecdote about these. (It's an SF headquartered company; our Atlanta office had ~200 engineering, ~500 total headcount, and we had lots of other remote offices smaller than ours.)

During his visit, our CEO made sure to take time with each team to solicit feedback from us. It was something we were looking forward to -- it was a chance to have a face to face open dialogue with him where we could make asks and air our grievances. While we all got the chance to say our piece, our CEO couldn't help but be super excited about Jamboards. He filled the my team's discussion with notes about them and made lots of excited suggestions, which cut into our time with him significantly. He ultimately spoke with every single team at the office about these things and kept asking us to let him know when, not if, we wanted more of them. He never thought to ask if we liked or wanted them.

I understand our CEO's desire to remove friction between Atlanta and SF and New York and all the other offices, but this was such a peculiar choice that none of us (even leadership) were a party to.

The Jamboards ultimately went completely unused and took up entirely too much space in the office corners. They wasted electricity, too.

leptons2y ago

That makes it pretty clear that this is a hardware obsolescence issue - the old hardware can't run newer android, and thus can't receive security updates, etc. The only real option is to cut off the old hardware in hopes they won't be left on and become a security problem for the owners. For a $600/month fee I would think Google should just replace the old hardware with a newer model, or they should have originally made the compute part of the system modular and upgradeable. But now it's just e-waste? I hope Google learns something from this, but they probably won't.

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echelon2y ago

My last company bought a bunch of these just before the pandemic to help facilitate working with remote offices. All the big conference rooms had one.

Nobody wanted to use them, and they went completely unused to my knowledge.

agrippanux2y ago

This product seems like the kind of thing a company would buy, it would be tried out in a few meetings, then everyone would go back to driving the meeting room's mounted TV with a laptop.

echelon2y ago

I understand our CEO's desire to remove friction between Atlanta and SF and New York and all the other offices, but this was such a peculiar choice that none of us (even leadership) were a party to.

The Jamboards ultimately went completely unused and took up entirely too much space in the office corners. They wasted electricity, too.

leptons2y ago

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