U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
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Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#2And yet, as Gruber points out, they are just a rounding error in web browser usage. [1] If they're that successful, why don't Chromebooks appear in usage stats?
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#3And yet, as Gruber points out, they are just a rounding error in web browser usage. [1] If they're that successful, why don't Chromebooks appear in usage stats? 1. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/12/28/chromebooks
Because the stat is unreliable.
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#4...in "commercial markets". As far as I can tell, that does not include consumer and would make the headline extremely misleading.
So a bunch of companies decided to buy ChromeBooks, presumably without asking their employees.
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#5And yet, as Gruber points out, they are just a rounding error in web browser usage. [1] If they're that successful, why don't Chromebooks appear in usage stats? 1. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/12/28/chromebooks
If anything Gruber points out that Chrome OS isn't being counted.
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#6Depends on definition of "notebook".
I would assume it is different from laptop, netbook, ultabook and tablet.
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#7...in "commercial markets". As far as I can tell, that does not include consumer and would make the headline extremely misleading. So a bunch of companies decided to buy ChromeBooks, presumably without asking their employees.
I have no idea if 21% is correct, but on Amazon Chromebooks are 4 of the 5 top selling laptops. Something is going on.
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Laptop-Comput...
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#8Bought Chromebooks (and Chromecasts) for all my tech-illiterate family members in order to cut down on having to provide tech support, and it's been amazing. No issues so far, and everything just works.
I think that actually is just fine for most companies -- less tech support, and does everything they need (collaborative documents, email, web searches, etc).
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#9And yet, as Gruber points out, they are just a rounding error in web browser usage. [1] If they're that successful, why don't Chromebooks appear in usage stats? 1. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/12/28/chromebooks
Because the stat is unreliable.
How is it unreliable, and how is the margin of error so bad that these are a no-show?
Re: U.S. Commercial Computing Device Sales Set to End 2013 with Double-Digit Growth
#10...in "commercial markets". As far as I can tell, that does not include consumer and would make the headline extremely misleading. So a bunch of companies decided to buy ChromeBooks, presumably without asking their employees.
Yes, the title is misleading. But it's already been picked up by dozens of news sites, hit the front page of reddit etc., so it's probably hopeless to debunk at this point.
It's a shame because the numbers do actually show a very large increase in ChromeBook sales, but the tech press has focused on numbers that exaggerate and distort that.