Effective distributed whiteboarding, etc. is something that the tech industry has been dithering with for decades and nothing has ever seemed to quite click. It feels that, with relatively inexpensive tablets [ADDED: and almost affordable big screen touchscreens], maybe we'll actually converge on something interesting.
I really wish you could use this app without signing in to a MS account (and just use it offline).<p>Does anyone know of a good alternative app that gives you an easy to use whiteboard that works offline?<p>Edit: Before anyone says "paint"... The paint app creates very harsh and blocky lines with all of its brush tools and photoshop is massive overkill.<p>The "ink workspaces" are almost perfect but not quite. The sketch app only runs in full screen which is a pretty big limitation.
I really wish we could use Surface Hubs or this new whiteboard product at my company. We're a huge global enterprise and many development teams are split across boarders. It is very difficult to convey complicated technical work over a conference call or to whip out a visio type diagram on the fly.<p>We're heavy cisco users and are using Webex Teams (formally cisco spark) along with Cisco Spark boards. It's cool that it can work on any number of devices but the UX is far inferior to MS Surface Hub. Even with the bad UX these tools have been helpful.<p>These tools are expensive but they have paid for themselves many times over on time/travel savings.
If you want local-only collaborative drawing with iPads and Apple TV, Inko costs $20, <a href="https://medium.com/@creaceed/drawing-together-behind-the-scenes-a7a0352ab7e4" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@creaceed/drawing-together-behind-the-sce...</a> & <a href="https://creaceed.com/inko" rel="nofollow">https://creaceed.com/inko</a>
We've had JamBoards with GSuite for a while. They're cool to play with, but once the novelty wears off no one really seems to use them any more and they collect dust in the corner of the meeting rooms.<p>Anyone actually using these things frequently, or see anyone else actually use them?<p>I've never seen any meetings where people just draw out pictures of rabbits or trivially simple flow-charts and call it day...
Saw this sometime back before the Surface Go was announced, and once that announcement was made it made a lot more sense for me. I have not yet fully tried it though. I am waiting to get a Surface Pen to see just how good those things can be on a Surface Book 2. I do like the idea of digital notes that I can 'scribble' myself.
Compare that app + Surface Hub to Google Jamboard [1] which is a single-purpose 4k TV capable of only fulfilling this use case and costing $5k + $600/year.<p>1 - <a href="https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/" rel="nofollow">https://gsuite.google.com/products/jamboard/</a>
That sentence at the end is odd - does it mean that the iOS app will be paid for?<p>> Microsoft Whiteboard is available as an app for all users on Windows 10 devices. For commercial users, the Whiteboard app will be coming soon to iOS
This is great, and I am happy Microsoft has put forth a great product to fulfill collaborative white boarding on their platform. Microsoft has been supporting of digital convas technology for a long time, which was finally streamline in the inkcanvas control in WPF over a decade ago.<p>This solution from Microsoft has been floating around the education sector for sometime already by Dyknow, a small company HQ'd in Indiana. Curious if this firm's tech was bought out or just copied.