[OT] Chromebook

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

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.