Business users, basically, can afford to spend more. Except for units that reduce the quality of certain specs for schools, “Chromebook brands are set to raise product specs to extend their reach from the education market to the consumer market with higher price tags,” says Sagitta Pan, a senior industry analyst with the Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute in Taipei.
Acer's CEO Jason Chen has called Chromebooks a key revenue source along with gaming PCs.Īcer is not the only company expecting a hike in Chromebook prices, analysts believe.
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Acer does not disclose revenue figures for Chromebooks, but per this report, sales from the PC subclass grew 30% year-on-year from January through September 2018. 6 PC vendor as of the first quarter of 2019, held the largest share of the Chromebook market among vendors in 2017, though its 26% share last year came in behind HP's 31%, per Canalys data.Īcer announced May 8 a first-quarter net profit of NT$706 million ($22.8 million) on revenue of NT$54.7 billion along with an increase in “the average selling price” of its PCs across categories. Acer hooked up with Google in 2008 to develop the original notebooks that run on the Silicon Valley giant's speedy, cloud-based Chrome systems.
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