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Despite the initial Chromebooks being widely considered a failure, they push on with the next iteration of this product. Google has the kind of determination that only obscene amounts of money can buy.


It was mostly a pricing failure, one which they unfortunately repeated again this time. Yes, it did have usability problems, and it has been greatly improved, but you know as they say: there is no bad product, only bad pricing.

Chromebooks would sell for $200, or free on contract with LTE. They won't sell for $450.


$30 a month for business customers if they'd open it up to the general public. And with a few meg of free 3g.. I can imagine that taking off nicely.

I'm waiting for them to get rid of the 3 unit minimum.


For the business market, a Chromebook pays for itself in software licensing, maintenance, and other savings vs. Windows, every year.




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