On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:40:14 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
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.
For that price I can easily get a tablet with keyboard, with the
advantage of real native applications + a web browser.
For example, Lenovo A10-70 just one randomly picked out at German
Amazon.
Eventually Google will realize they are as useful as WebOS and
will merge them with Android.
--
Paulo
