{"id":22616,"date":"2018-09-03T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T19:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22616"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T19:28:56","slug":"chrome-os-is-set-to-expand-beyond-the-education-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/03\/chrome-os-is-set-to-expand-beyond-the-education-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome OS Is Set to Expand Beyond the Education Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/09\/600-chromebooks-are-a-dangerous-development-for-microsoft\/\">Peter Bright<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=17891694\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/09\/600-chromebooks-are-a-dangerous-development-for-microsoft\/\">\n<p>Most Chrome OS systems are cheap: plastic instead of metal; TN displays instead of IPS; screen resolution that felt cramped and low a decade ago; inexpensive ARM processors rather than more powerful and pricier Intel ones. In a lot of regards, Chromebooks are hitting the same price points&mdash;with the same compromises&mdash;as netbooks did in the mid-2000s. This has given Chromebooks great appeal in the K12 education market, where the low price and almost disposable nature of the devices makes them a good match for careless student users.<\/p>\n<p>But these $600 machines aren&rsquo;t aimed at those same students. Lenovo reps told us that its new Chromebook was developed because the company was seeing demand for Chromebooks from users with a bit more disposable income. For example, new college students that had used Chrome OS at high school and families who wanted the robustness Chrome OS offers are looking for machines that are more attractive, use better materials, and are a bit faster and more powerful. The $600 machines fit that role.<\/p>\n<p>And that&rsquo;s why Microsoft should be concerned. This demand shows a few things. Perhaps most significantly of all, it shows that Chrome OS&rsquo;s mix of Web applications, possibly extended with Android applications, is good enough for a growing slice of home and education users. Windows still has the application advantage overall, but the relevance of these applications is diminishing as Web applications continue to improve. A browser and the Web are sufficient to handle the needs of a great many users.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/29\/everything-you-knew-about-chromebooks-is-wrong\/\">Everything You Knew About Chromebooks Is Wrong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/11\/chrome-os-is-getting-linux-app-support\/\">Chrome OS Is Getting Linux App Support<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bright (via Hacker News): Most Chrome OS systems are cheap: plastic instead of metal; TN displays instead of IPS; screen resolution that felt cramped and low a decade ago; inexpensive ARM processors rather than more powerful and pricier Intel ones. In a lot of regards, Chromebooks are hitting the same price points&mdash;with the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-09-03T19:41:25Z","apple_news_api_id":"4a00723a-0458-4c86-b57e-bed79fb7891f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-09-11T19:28:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASgByOgRYTIa1fr7Xn7eJHw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[248,1309],"class_list":["post-22616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-android","tag-google-chromebook"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22718,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions\/22718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}