On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 03:41:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 June 2015 at 22:38:47 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
They're insanely popular, especially in educational
environments. They do everything 98% of modern computer users
do, which is generally check email, browse facebook, and use
twitter.
Not really. While they do sell some in education, they were
1.8% of the PC market last year, much less than even Macs
despite being much cheaper:
https://www.petri.com/chromebook-continues-to-be-a-tiny-slice-of-the-pc-market
Compare that 5.7 million in sales to a billion Android devices
sold last year, native is definitely winning.
chromebooks weren't even really usable until the latter half of
2013/start of 2014 when Acer/HP/Dell/Toshiba/etc all got on board
and it stopped being just Samsung making them. 2% is huge for
less than 2 years. That was the chromebook revision that featured
the ultra low power Haswell CPUs(2955U,) before that they were
incredibly slow and suffered from general netbook issues.
And they're not even comparable to an android /phone/. Compare
them to tablet sales.
