According to the IT analysts at Gartner this will be good year for Cromebook. Sales will increase and so will the profits, looks like Google and partners have a hit product on their hands.
In Gartner report Cromebook sales will reach 5.2 million devices sold by the end of this year. This will be a 79% increase from the last year, huge increase in only one year. However Chromebook sales are not distributed equally around the globe. Almost 82% of their sales are in North America and 85% of that is to education sector. Seems like Google Chromebook is primary an education device, will see if that changes in 2014.
As the biggest reason for their increase in sale, is the low price for Chromebook. PC market is down and tablets are not that cheap, at least not the good ones, all of this makes Chromebook a very competitive device. As you now Google is not a hardware company so you have to look at the manufacturers. Samsung is still the leader with 64%, fallowed by Acer 21%, Lenovo and HP have 6% each.
This year want be the only good year for Cromebook. Sales are expected to increase in the fallowing years as well. By 2017 their sale results will triple as the total number of sold units will reach 14.4 million.
There are still many complaints abot these devices, like the one when your Internet is down Cromebook becomes useless. But regardless to the complaints, sometimes well justified, Google has another operating system that is becoming more and more popular. That is if you can say that Chromebook has an operating system.
Android is ruling the smartphone market with the increase in sale year after year, and now when the PC market is going down, Chromebook sales are going up. People at Google must be feeling pretty good about this report.
Source gartner.
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