{"id":11851,"date":"2021-02-19T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=11851"},"modified":"2021-02-19T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:18:11","slug":"chromebooks-double-their-market-share-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/chromebooks-double-their-market-share-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromebooks double their market share in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 2020 being the year of remote working, a lot of people needed a lot of new equipment to work from home and it appears the soup de jour was the humble Chromebook.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Beginning the year on par with Mac sales Chromebooks slowly gapped its nearest rival before hitting an explosion of growth as the pandemic continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/27123306\/marketshare.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11852\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/27123306\/marketshare.png\" alt=\"computer marketshare\" width=\"613\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/27123306\/marketshare.png 613w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/27123306\/marketshare-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/27123306\/marketshare-380x237.png 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chrome OS powered devices naturally have a price advantage over Macs, with even the cheapest Mac portable a long way north of Chromebook price tags that often begin in the hundreds instead of the thousands.<\/p>\n<p>The big loser here isn&#8217;t Apple however, whilst Chrome OS may have shot passed it with 10.8% of sales (up from 6.4% in 2019), Macs too have increased their share hitting 7.5% (up from 6.7%) with the two eating into the lucrative Windows market down to 80.5% in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Best Chromebooks of 2020 (so far)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXRmR_zQRaI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Still the lion-share, Microsoft should see the continued decline as a real threat as Apple move to their custom silicon showing exceedingly better computational and battery performance and the rise of Google&#8217;s Chrome OS, which can also hit Microsoft&#8217;s Office pocket too.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2021\/chromebooks-outsold-macs-worldwide-2020-cutting-windows-market-share\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Geekwire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 2020 being the year of remote working, a lot of people needed a lot of new equipment to work from home and it appears the soup de jour was the humble Chromebook.\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Chromebooks double their market share in 2020","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[13,256,183,43,304,102],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}