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[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

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.