From DailyTech: Gartner Inc. (IT), a top market research firm, brings good news for Google Inc. (GOOG). The analysts at Gartner estimate that Chromebooks -- notebook computers that run Google's Chrome OS Linux distribution -- will see a 27 percent increase in sales for this year, with sales rising from 5.7 million in 2014 to 7.3 million in 2015.
By region Gartner forecasts North America to continue to be Chromebooks top sales location, with roughly 84 percent of global sales:
North America -- 4,820,000 -- 84%
EMEA* ---------- 620,000 -- 11%
APAC^ ---------- 146,000 -- 2.5%
Latin America -- 142,000 -- 2.5%
*EMEA= Europe, Middle East, and Africa
^APAC= Asia-Pacific countries
While APAC (Asian-Pacific) sales were nearly as low as in Latin America, enterprise sales of Chromebooks were unexpectedly lively in the region accounting for 16.5 percent of sales -- roughly 24,000 units. By contrast while nearly 35 Chromebooks sold in North America for ever one in the APAC region, only 53,000 of those sales -- or roughly 1.1 percent -- were to enterprise clients. In the U.S. nearly 2 in 5 Chromebooks sold (38.6 percent) went to consumers, while roughly three in five (60.3 percent) went to educational institutions.
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