On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Steven Walling <steven.wall...@gmail.com>wrote:
> "Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25 > percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300..."[1] > > I have no idea how many pageviews we get coming from ChromeOS devices, and > I suspect it's hard to differentiate from regular Chrome visits on other > systems? Anyway, sales trends clearly suggest they are becoming more of a > niche to pay attention to. > > It might be nice to have an official Wikipedia Chrome app. There are a few > in the Web Store now,[2] but they're not great. For Chrome OS users, the > main advantages of having an app, even if all it does is redirect to the > website, is the ability to add it to your Chrome homescreen and the dock. > > This is probably not such a big market that the Foundation would spend any > money developing for it, but I think it's probably not hard, and anyway > Google building an OS with the Web as its backbone is kind of cool. > > 1. > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/google-chromebook-under-300-defies-pc-market-with-growth.html > Whoops. That [2] is supposed to be https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/Wikipedia _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
