Chromebooks outsold Macs for the first time in the US
I think it&#x27;s hilarious how little the HN community knows about Chromebooks. Every time it pops up, there&#x27;s a wave of people saying &quot;I don&#x27;t know a single person who has one!&quot; and &quot;They seem useless without an internet connection!&quot; and &quot;I wonder how they compare to mac books.&quot;<p>People forget that most of the world doesn&#x27;t write code, and doesn&#x27;t need native applications. They write email, take selfies, and write extremely simple spreadsheets. It&#x27;s way more important to have cheap, reliable, accessible, safe hardware. You&#x27;d be amazed how many people encounter a problem with their computer and give up because &quot;it&#x27;s mad at me.&quot; This isn&#x27;t an educational problem. The technology is failing them. Wrestling with an operating system sucks.<p>And then there&#x27;s all of these amazing up-coming technologies like WebAssembly and WebRTC. If we can have the security and uniformity of a Chromebook <i>and</i> run Photoshop and Quake and BitTorrent directly in the browser with no overhead, then there&#x27;s absolutely no point for users to deal with the muck and grime of whatever bad state they get their local filesystem into.