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Real World Stats Show Chromebooks Are Struggling
recoiledsnake writes "The first real world stats for Chromebooks show that they're struggling to have any traction in the marketplace. In its first week of monitoring worldwide usage of Google's Chrome OS, NetMarketShare reported that the percentage of web traffic from Chromebooks was roughly 2/100 of 1 percent, a figure too small to earn a place on its reports. The first Chromebooks went on sale in June 2011, nearly two years ago, with Acer reportedly selling fewer than 5000 units in the first six months and Samsung selling even fewer. In the past three years, Chromebook sales have been worse than even three months worth of WindowsRT sales. Perhaps users are heeding Stallman's warning on Chromebooks. We previously discussed reports of Chromebook topping Amazon sales, selling to 2000 schools and wondered whether QuickOffice on ChromeOS can topple Microsoft Office." I find ChromeOS good in some contexts (any place that a browser and a thin layer of Linux is all you need), but the limitations are frustrating — especially on hardware that can run a conventional Linux as well as Google's specialized one. We'll watch for developments in the Google hardware world at next week's I/O conference.
What? They scrapped Google Reader? I had always meant to try that someday. I need to get around to trying out a Chromebook someday too...
However, I'd wipe it and install Debian, so the web stats wouldn't be counting me anyway -- Hold on, doesn't that mean the traffic graphs are more about ChromeOS adoption than that of a Chromebook? It's not like installing Cyanogen makes my Nexus not a Nexus anymore...
Wait just a damn minute. Did we just comment on observations of statistics?! Well, the whole things moot then isn't it? 100% of those I've polled agree.
So, you demonstrated that it can be used to post shills on Slashdot. Can it be used for anything useful?
Why do you hate trees? What did trees ever do to you?