Research firm Gartner has claimed that over 5.728 million units of the Google Chromebooks were sold last year, speaking volumes about the success of the platform. It is said that 72 percent of these units were sold or offered to educational institutions, which is encouraging news for Google.
Chromebooks have always been preferred by users who rely on cloud services, even more so if they’re hooked onto Google’s ecosystem. And with Android integration being cooked in recently, Chromebooks are turning out to be quite an attractive proposition to those who get most of their job done from the cloud.
Of course, Google would want more consumers to get their hands on Chromebooks, but that feat cannot be achieved overnight. One of the crucial factors in the success of the Chromebooks has been the pricing offered by Google, with most of them falling under the $250-300 range.
The research firm predicted Chromebook sales to grow even further in the coming years with 7.288 million expected to be sold this year and 7.953 million units the next year.
“The majority of Chromebook users are tech-savvy individuals who purchase one as a companion device to their primary notebook or desktop PC. Others are buying a Chromebook for the household to use as a second low-cost PC alternative,” said Isabelle Durand, principal analyst at Gartner.
“The major factors that affect the adoption of Chromebooks by consumers remain the connectivity issue in emerging markets, but also the ability for users to understand and get used to cloud-based applications, and keep content in the cloud and ecosystem.”
Source: Gartner
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