Yesterday I wrote about an NPD report that came out for back-to-school PC sales in 2014.
In that report, Chromebook sales were reported to account for 18 percent of all sales of notebooks under $300.
This sounds like good news if you don’t remember what NPD was telling us a year ago. Stephen Baker, NPD’s Vice President of Industry Analysis for Consumer Technology, said the following;
In the last eight months Chromebooks have snagged 20 percent to 25 percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300.
If Chromebooks sales have truly fallen from 20-25% market share to 18% market share in the sub-$300 laptop segment, that’s pretty bad news for them. Not that it’s particularly good news for Microsoft either.
Naofumi Kagami 