The share of Google's Cheap Notebook PC "Chromebook" rapidly increased, revealing the fact that it is threatening Windows notebook PC

Chromebook which is a very low price notebook PC of about 30,000 yenHas significantly expanded its market share was discovered by the US market research result of a desktop PC · notebook · tablet terminal by a US research company.

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Research companyNPD GroupExamined the number of desktop PCs, notebook PCs and tablet terminals sold in the US distribution network between January 2013 and November 2013, and calculated the share of market share.

The survey results showed that a total of 14.4 million units were sold on desktop PCs, notebook PCs and tablet terminals, which showed a sharp increase of 25.4% compared to 2012, but according to NPD, It is said that the number of tablet terminal sales has increased sharply.

In addition, the survey results reveal that while the share of tablet devices is rapidly expanding, not only desktop PCs but Windows notebook PCs are significantly lowering market share compared to last year. Although desktop PCs and notebook PCs increased in number as a whole compared to last year, the overall share and proportion has declined as a result, and the explosive increase in tablet terminals is the cause.

However, due to this trend, only Chromebook notebook PC developed by Google developed exclusively with share, and the big breakthrough of Chromebook stands outstanding.


The Chromebook, less than 1% in 2012, has grown significantly in 2013 and now accounts for 21% of the notebook PC's share. The share-up rate of Chromebook is maximum even including tablet terminal etc. Although Apple's iPad that has lost its share due to the breakthrough of Android tablet devices, it keeps a 59% share of the tablet market.

Steven Baker, vice president of NPD pointed out that the dominant position that Windows maintained for many years has been fluctuating over the years, while summarizing that the computer market expanded with the appearance of new terminals such as Chromebook and Windows tablet in 2013 It is.

Anti-Google campaign-intensive Microsoft has launched an anti-Chromebook campaign and appealed for the shortcomings of Chromebook with CM on a commercial basis, but American users seemed to have not listened to that voice.

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While Google is expected to actively promote sales of Chromebooks in 2014,We plan to abort support for Windows XPDoes Microsoft have a secret strategy to recover its share? In addition, Apple's revealed "Great plan for 2014Will there be a major change in terminal share depending on? I can not keep an eye out for the share battle of computing terminals more and more in 2014.