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Chromebooks are very successful, outselling MacOS desktops in 2016. They run a pretty standard Linux environment. I don't think anyone thought Linux to take ov

• pjmlp 10y ago
  Chromebooks provide access to the underlying Linux distribution, after doing a magic incantation that the common user doesn't have any idea about. For the non geek audience, it is a browser based OS. Google could base it in something else, and none of them would notice it.
• coldtea 10y ago
  >Chromebooks are very successful, outselling MacOS desktops in 2016. That's still products from multiple vendors (Dell, HP, and Lenovo, Asus?, etc) narrowingly beating sales from a single vendor. And that (a) in a year when the single vendor had stalled updating their product line, and (b) with the Chromebooks being much cheaper, and more mass market, offerings. So this speaks more to the slow sales of Chromebooks during the previous years than some major breakthrough.
• pmontra 10y ago
  You're right, according to the the US stats I saw. I probably forgot about them because I never saw one (Italy here) or if I saw them I mistaken them for a Windows laptop. However I think I never heard the word Chromebook in a conversation, either work or friends. We could use a Chromebook everywhere we're connecting to the Internet with our laptops but apparently we're not.
• oneweekwonder 10y ago
  Chromebooks like you mentioned is a Linux environment, a unix like clone. MacOS is a certified unix OS.