Uphill

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:40:14 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> 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.

For that price I can easily get a tablet with keyboard, with the 
advantage of real native applications + a web browser.

For example, Lenovo A10-70 just one randomly picked out at German 
Amazon.

Eventually Google will realize they are as useful as WebOS and 
will merge them with Android.

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Paulo