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[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

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.