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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Mikeb85 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:03PM (#9299869)
You do realise that Asus, Lenovo, HP, etc... sell Chromebooks, right? Google sells very few branded as a 'Google' product.

The numbers are out there, but Google isn't releasing numbers because they're a tiny vendor.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by ntakasaki on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:08PM (#9299898)
You mean Google does not know exactly how many Chromebooks are being sold by Asus, Lenovo, HP, etc?
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Mikeb85 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:52PM (#9300145)
They probably do, but all those are public companies. They all report sales a certain way. Google isn't going to mess with reporting sales that other companies are making. That's irresponsible.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by jhall1468 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:51PM (#9300143)
No. Why would they? You think Asus, Lenovo and HP are giving sales data to Google?
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by jeromegv on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @06:53PM (#9300444)
They do know about Android activations, it's not so far fetched.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by robotresearcher on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @02:46AM (#9302000)
All the Chromebooks phone home regularly checking for updates, etc. Google knows exactly how many have been used and are in use now.
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