[OT] Chromebook

Joakim via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 3 01:34:21 PDT 2015


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.

> 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. :)

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.


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