market with an all time high purchases.The company now owns 21% of the
market share up from less than 2% last year.
Competition
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In a market, dominated by Microsoft, Google is a competitor to
reckon.Two years ago, chromebooks had only a small fraction of
consumers mainly consisting of students.Hp,Samsung and Acer have
partnered with Google to sell chromebooks at cheaper prices.
Consumer watch
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Users have shown preference for chrome over windows run
laptops.Chromebooks operating system requires no unwanted updates
andhas an inbuilt antivirus.Furthermore, its' chrome integrated
browser runs more faster and efficiently in the web.
Other handul features include some of Google's high end products such
as cloud storage upto 100GB,Google docs etc embeded in the Operating
System.
Such features have slowed down sales for Apple's mac and Micosoft's
windows PC's.
Emerging issues
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Challenges facing chromebook include sluggishness in running offline
applications.Google defended itself by claiming chrome OS is still new
and requires time to find solutions and remit required updates.
Other problems include faulty accesories.Hp inc, notorious for
manufacturing overheating chargers in recent years, had to recall
250000 battery chargers sold after users filed complaints.
Officials from Google however, were upbeat that the hitch will not
impact on sales.They predicted high sales in first quater of 2014.
Source:TechzipLOG