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So why haven't we seen the same story apply for the chromebook market(which btw is 10% of laptops) ? It has open and fair competition between Atoms and Arm's.
by petra 11y ago
So why haven't we seen the same story apply for the chromebook market(which btw is 10% of laptops) ? It has open and fair competition between Atoms and Arm's.
- pjmlp 11y ago10% of laptops where? Beside the HN quotes that everyone in US is using them, I never saw a single person using a Chromebook in Europe. Surely I see them on display in German stores, usually just one, being down priced every week until it finally sells. Take a couple of months and another one eventually shows up again on the same display spot. On the street, trains, coffeshops, airports, never spotted one.
- hga 11y agoThey're said to have a big fraction of the US K-12 education market, where Chrome OS is a good fit, and they're cheaper than full service x86 laptops and much cheaper than Apple laptops.
- andrepd 11y agoSure, they're "said to". But is there a reliable figure somewhere about usage share of that segment?