On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:36:31 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
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.
Oh, I forgot the most important part.
The acer c720 was $200 on release, it was the cheapest chromebook
to date. C700 launched at $349, and the samsung series 5 launched
at $399 for reference.
Before the haswell iteration they just weren't ready to be a
thing.
