Are these figures legit? I can honestly say i dont know anyone that uses chrome OS, Not one person.
reading the bottom of the article it starts to make sense, Kids, Kids are given a chrome book for school....
Those slimey bastards at google...
They probably are, they have massive adoption in .edu. I have a few clients that use them as well.
Chrome OS is popular in schools, so it has a disproportionate market share, kind of like Apple did back during the IIe/IIc days - schools loved them, so there were a lot of them "out there."
I have some family members that gave their kids a Chromebook, because they don't know enough to keep a real machine free of cruft, and the kids aren't smart enough not to fuck them up. Chromebook you just wipe and go. I am sincerely considering getting one for my father, because he's the same way. All he needs is a browser Jootoobs.
ChromeOS at schools would definitely account for the decrease in MacOS popularity. Every school I went to growing up, Elementary through High School, had Apple products. If half of those machines were replaced with ChromeBooks, Apple would take a huge hit. ChromeBooks are much cheaper than Apple alternatives; so, considering that they are both shit OSs, it makes sense just to go with the ChromeBooks.
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