Principal: Foreign media wrote today, pointed out that the U.S. search giant Google last month launched a Chromebook Pixel, test the water high-end laptop market. If all Chromebook products can continue Samsung's successful road, Microsoft and Intel's "Windows+Intel alliance will not only face further downward pressure on prices, Apple Mac sales may also be affected.
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Windows+intel alliance faced pressure
In the mobile industry, iPhone and iPad called "ATM". Credit Suisse data show that the fourth quarter of 2012, these two communicative devices total gross profit of $ 17 billion contribution to Apple. So, Apple is so scared of Google free mobile operating system Android, it is not surprising.
At the same time, in the area of the desktop PC sales slowdown, but Microsoft and Intel is still profitable. Free desktop operating system like Android threat to Apple's position in the Google Chrome OS, it will probably erode the profits of Microsoft and Intel in the future.
Although Chrome is a browser known, but Google also build a lightweight computer operating system. In order to keep up with the trend of the development of the cloud computing era, Samsung, HP and other hardware manufacturers are now coming in cheap laptop using this platform.
As computer users continue to increase the time of the Internet, the hardware manufacturers are trying to meet their needs. Apple introduced the iPad, creating a whole new a new category of mobile devices. The Chromebook additionally carries the same mission, except that it is configured keyboard, so users can easily create and consume content.
To hot pursuit Industry trend
Cost Chromebook notebook computers have a big advantage. The most widespread of the Samsung Chromebook, for example, the retail price of only $ 249. This product uses the Google Android operating system, rather than the costly Microsoft Windows platform; likewise give up the high price of the Intel chip, in favor of its own low-cost chip.
Not too heavy the Samsung Chromebook storage space, the cost of further decline. However, as more and more users will now be documents, photos and music, remote storage in Google Drive or Dropbox cloud computing services, Chromebook convenience is not due to the reduction of the storage capacity slightest inferior.
From strategy, Chrome adhering to the same route with Android. Regardless of the fact that the FREE software to hardware vendors, but Google has to expand the coverage of its service users, in particular, the search service. Amazon are pursuing the same strategy, Kindle tablet PCs sold at low prices, thus stimulating the sales of books and other content.
In addition, Google similarly self-built hardware product trends in hot pursuit of software vendors, last week released its own Chromebook - Pixel Notebook. However, what surprises us is that the search giant utilizing high-end parts build a Chromebook Pixel, such as the Intel processor and touch screen, this way, the retail price of this product have gone up to $ 1,299.
Mac sales will fall by the impact
Previously, Google's goal may be merely to demonstrate the potential for Chromebook notebook products, but now high-performance gained the upper hand in the popularity contest, the Google Chromebook Pixel, no longer like the traditional, just as an important content delivery tools , after all, we can save the data in the cloud.
The Chromebook and took a plunge netbook what is essentially the difference between them? The First Chromebook cost even lower. The netbook is really just a streamlined version of PC: slow startup speed, you need anti-virus software support, and can not provide first-class browsing experience. Third, the notebook market is more mature than ever before. Now, through the Internet, you can remote publishing more services, including Microsoft's own Office suite.
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