On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:34:22 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:36:31 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
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.
So you think they're about to break out? I don't see it.
I think cornering 2% of the PC market in 2 years is a pretty big
deal.
And they're not even comparable to an android /phone/. Compare
them to tablet sales.
Why? Do phones not "do everything 98% of modern computer users
do... check email, browse facebook, and use twitter?" Seems
like phones have taken over those use cases these days. :)
because phones are used for communication, my mother has a smart
phone and to her it's a confusing landline phone.
There is a giant market for devices that don't catch viruses
and have all kinds of registry settings, but Android and iOS
have taken 99+% of that market. I was going to make the same
point Paulo just made: just get an Android device and you can
put a Chrome browser on there too. I don't see the point of
limiting yourself to just the browser, even though that is what
a significant fraction of people probably use most of the time.
ChromeOS strikes me as google trying to use their one hammer
everywhere, even when there are no nails, ie they're built
around the web so they made an OS out of it. But it's frankly
kind of a dumb idea, I don't see it lasting.
They're working on a multi-window mode for Android, early
versions of which have been found by those spelunking through
the recent Android M preview. Once that's done, I suspect
they'll start putting Android on laptops too and kill off
Chrome OS.
chromebooks sell because touchscreens are a gimmick and android
is terrible with a keyboard.
but hey, if it didn't work so well
why is Microsoft trying so hard to copy them, going as far as
making commercials about how "awful" chromebooks are, then
releasing their own chromebook - I mean, stream.
