Q3 2013 is a long time ago. According to NPD, Chromebooks had 14% market share in 2014, counting retail and commercial (read: education) channels. Growth was up 85% year over year, too, which is amazing in the context of a stagnant/declining laptop market.
http://betanews.com/2015/02/24/2015-is-year-of-the-chromeboo...
NPD is a less reliable source covering a much smaller market (not that any of them are reliable).
Chromebook sales are about 1% of all PC sales, says ABI Research
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/22/chromebook...
Different source, different paper, different journalist, same conclusion.
The idea that Chromebooks sell in volume is delusional, at this point, and downvotes won't make it any less delusional.
You can spin it all sorts of ways. Keep in mind the 'PC' market includes all those legacy Windows XP computers which are languishing in peoples homes, businesses, corporations, etc...
Chromebook sales are a much bigger part of current PC sales. And vendors do keep expanding their Chromebook lines. If it was a failure they wouldn't.
The "PC market" refers to current sales. "Installed base" is the term for the metric that includes the languishing WinXP machines.
Ah yeah you're right. The 1% came from some guy extrapolating Samsung's sales of Chromebooks to mean the whole Chromebook market...
Latest IDC figures show Chromebooks continue to struggle http://www.zdnet.com/article/latest-idc-figures-show-chromeb...