[OT] Chromebook

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:38:09 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> 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.

Surfaces have always been full-blown laptops with detachable 
keyboards.

Stream?! I had to search for it, only found the HP Stream model, 
running a full Windows 8.1 OS, not a browser pretending to be an 
OS.

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Paulo