Google is discontinuing its collaborative whiteboarding app, Jamboard, and will focus on third-party solutions like FigJam, Lucidspark, and Miro.
Jamboard will become read-only on October 1st, 2024, and all files will be permanently deleted by December 31st, 2024.
The company will help customers migrate to other whiteboard tools.
The Google Graveyard is probably among the largest and most occupied tech graveyards to ever exist, with so many released products serving essentially as public experiments with no guarantee of long term commitment. Just the other day they announced the end of the Google Podcast app.
The Jamboard was quite useful and popular among education and enterprise customers but instead of committing to it and spending resources to keep iterating, the company chose to end it when customers say competitors’ products serve them better. It’s one thing to hire fast and fire fast but release fast and cancel fast is an irresponsible policy that often affects a large customer base who may have made significant financial commitments.
Why bother releasing new products when you have no long term commitment? Why would you attract customers when all you do is blink at the competition? How can anybody trust a company like this?
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