With Chrome’s hold over the education space relatively secure, Google is set to bet big on the commercial segment this year. Even as key markets like North America and Western Europe have seen schools begin to open up, shipments remain elevated as governments and education ecosystems plan for long-term integration of Chromebooks within digital learning processes. “Their growth streak has extended well beyond the height of the pandemic as they have cemented a healthy position across all end-user segments in the industry. “The success of Chromebooks is proving to be remarkably resilient,” said Brian Lynch, Research Analyst at Canalys. Source: Canalys PC Analysis (sell-in shipments), July 2021 Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Worldwide Chromebook shipments (market share and annual growth ) Dell and Samsung made up the remainder of the top five, with the former being the only leading vendor to suffer a shipment decline. Acer secured a top-three position with growth of 83.0% propelling it above 1.8 million units in shipments. Lenovo took second place with 2.6 million units shipped increasing shipments by 82% from a year ago. HP maintained pole position with shipments of 4.3 million units and growth of 116% in Q2. Tablet shipment growth has begun to stabilize, with an increase in Q2 of just 4% year-on-year to 39.1 million units.Ĭhromebook vendors have doubled down on investments in the product category and most have continued to see strong returns in terms of growth. Chromebooks continued to outperform the rest of the industry product categories, posting 75% annual growth and a shipment volume of 11.9 million units. The latest data from Canalys shows the worldwide PC market (including tablets) posted yet another quarter of annual growth, with shipments up 10% to 121.7 million units. Chromebook growth hits 75% in Q2 2021 worldwide, outperforming other PC market categories
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