Google wants everyone using Chromebooks instead of Windows laptops.
Because almost no one uses Chromebooks except Google employees, so far their strategy involves contracting all the developers they can.
Because almost no one uses Chromebooks except Google employees, so far their strategy involves contracting all the developers they can.
There were ~30M Chromebooks sold in 2020[1]. I think many of those were sold to non-googlers.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/749890/worldwide-chromeb...
Some of those landed here in German stores, where they usually get reduced every couple of weeks until finally someone buys them.
Seriously, try using a Chromebook in anything other than the crippled "guest mode" without giving it your telephone number, a telephone-number-linked gmail account, or jailbreaking it. You can't (unless it's part of a corporate/education site bulk purchase).
Completely moronic policy decision.
Here in Germany they tend to stay on some corner being increasingly reduced until someone finally buys them.