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Unless I'm mistaken ChromeOS is only used in US schools on a wide scale.

• thejj100100 8y ago
  My school uses them in the UK but I believe that's a minority. A lot more schools seem to use iPads instead.
• botto 8y ago
  There is a wide deployment in Norway I believe, but indeed, I've not heard of big deployments elsewhere.
• pjmlp 8y ago
  Worldwide it has even less market share than GNU/Linux desktops.
• noir_lord 8y ago
  The only Chromebook I've seen anywhere is the nice one I bought my mum for Christmas year before last, she loves it and I've had no issues supporting it (like not a single one, she uses it constantly as well). I've got a school age stepson nothing there either.
  • superfrank 8y ago
    Give it a couple years and they will be everywhere. I used to work for a company that sold a monitoring and filtering product for school computers. It's only been in the last two or three years that the ecosystem around them has really matured enough that they can compete with Windows machines and iPads on anything other than price. With the way schools' budgets work, we've really only just passed the early adopter stage.
    • pjmlp 8y ago
      Not with the hardware division being downsized.
      • superfrank 8y ago
        Are you referring to Google's hardware division? If you are that doesn't really mean much. Most schools aren't buying fleets of Pixelbooks. They're buying chromebooks from companies like Acer and Asus which make devices that retail in the $200-400 range.
        • pjmlp 8y ago
          Yeah, but someone needs to actually develop ChromeOS, without Pixelbooks management might decide to focus elsewhere. And right now from the outside it feels like there is a ramping internal politics going on with ChromeOS, Android, PWA, Flutter, Fuchsia, Kotlin, Dart teams, with upper management giving free reign and let the best win kind of stuff.
          • superfrank 8y ago
            > Yeah, but someone needs to actually develop ChromeOS, without Pixelbooks management might decide to focus elsewhere. I really, really doubt that. I don't think you understand how ubiquitous Chromebooks are becoming to the education space. Last I heard, in the US, 60%+ of all school provided computers are Chromebooks. School SysAdmins love them because they're dirt cheap and can be provisioned quickly. From Google's perspective it's great too. Between Google Classroom and the way chromebook device management works, students have to have a google account to be able to go to school. There's rules on what data can collect, but still, kids are forced into the Google ecosystem at a young age. ChromeOS doesn't need the pixelbook to survive, it provides an enormous amount of value on its own. > And right now from the outside it feels like there is a ramping internal politics going on with ChromeOS, Android, PWA, Flutter, Fuchsia, Kotlin, Dart teams 100% agree there. I've been hearing for the past 3 or 4 years that Android and ChromeOS were going to be merged and nothing has yet to come of it. It seems like even Google doesn't know what is going on there.
            • pjmlp 8y ago
              Check the worldwide market share, Chromebooks are less than GNU/Linux desktops. Being only king of US school system isn't something that holds long term in a product roadmap.
• richdougherty 8y ago
  Common in New Zealand too.
• smadurange 8y ago
  Not common in Singapore. We do use computers in schools. Usually Windows or Macbooks. Same goes for univerties.