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>They are the best selling laptops in the U.S., yet no one dares write about their rise. Or perhaps they're not. If they were, you'd see a big rise in web brow
by wfjackson 12y ago
>They are the best selling laptops in the U.S., yet no one dares write about their rise.
Or perhaps they're not. If they were, you'd see a big rise in web browsing stats. Amazon doesn't sell all that many laptops, and there are relatively fewer models of Chromebooks.
Take the top 1000 best selling laptops on Amazon, total up the numbers as Chromebooks, Windows and Macs, and I seriously doubt Chromebooks would be selling better even on Amazon. Talk about cherry picking statistics and then say "no one dares to write about their rise". Actually no one with a reputation right dares to write such unresearched garbage.
The writer might as well declare Nexus phones as the best selling phones in the US because they are #1 on the Play Store. I was expecting better from Mossberg and Kara Swisher's Re/code and I am sorely disappointed about the misleading flamebait.
- nazgulnarsil 12y agoWhy are you speculating when numbers are available? http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/12/29/chromebook-sales-surge-in-2013-to-21-of-all-notebook-sales/ http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/12/29/chromebook-sales-sur...
- wfjackson 12y agoBecause the article you quote doesn't have any numbers beyond 21%. First, 21% does not mean "top selling". And the 21% does not include consumer sales, nor PCs sold by OEMs, such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, directly to businesses. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245212/Analysts_blast_crappy_Chromebooks_reporting_defend_platform_s_potential http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245212/Analysts_blas... Google knows the real numbers but doesn't want to reveal them. If they're the top selling laptops in the US why not? The article you quote is just shoddy reporting dressed up as numbers and it's sad to see people fall for it. The headline is just flat out wrong.
- j2kun 12y agoThis is not a fair comparison. Is Dickens didn't write a best selling book because the total number of all the Harry Potter books sold exceeds A Tale of Two Cities in number? Or worse, that the total volume of sales of trashy formula-written romance novels exceeds it? Moreover, sales of a notebook with a preloaded operating system doesn't measure operating system use. I have immediately reformatted every "Windows" machine I've ever bought. Just because they're sold with Windows (or Chromebook, or OS X) doesn't mean they stay that way.
- wfjackson 12y agoAre you saying "Top selling laptops on Amazon" is equivalent to "best selling laptops in the U.S." ? How is that a fair comparison?
- j2kun 12y agoI'm not saying it's good, but if you think that's unfair, it's certainly worse to take the top 1,000 on Amazon. Any method I'd approve of has to compensate both for the frequency of manufacturers making laptops that ship with each OS and the amount of time various OS's have been on the market.