It's actually 5 to 10% and the report says the following:
>>So that 5-10% figure falls into the range of 26,900 Chromebooks on the low end to 92,314 Chromebooks on the high end, assuming we equate PC shipments to PC sales. In reality, some of those shipments remain on retailers' shelves unsold. All told, these are not massive numbers, but they're a bit better than the 5,000-unit Acer Cromia 700 sales figure reported by Taiwan-based Digitimes in November 2011.
Are there any more recent numbers?
>Who is "they"? Chromebooks are released by several manufacturers, some of which have released numbers.
They = Google. Are you telling me that Google does not or cannot know the total number of Chromebooks being sold?
Again, any references of links will be appreciated, especially to hard numbers.
>And if Chromebook sales are bad why do more of them keep coming out, with more manufacturers joining in?
This is a good point, but there can be a lot of reasons. Google might be subsidizing costs to the OEMs to a large extent, like Microsoft may be doing with Windows Phones.
However, all the numbers coming out so far have been nebulous, like "double the previous years sales" etc.
The web usage metrics are important though since you cannot have something that runs only web sites selling well but not showing up in web usage logs, so hopefully there will be some better metrics available there.
Maybe people can contribute their own numbers. I looked up a site's metrics that I have access to. It's a large healthcare related US centric site, and Chrome OS is currently ranking far below Linux, Blackberry, Series40 and Windows Phone. It's above SymbianOS, Nokia, PS3, Wii, Xbox.
Another similar 100K visitors/month site shows ChromeOS at 70% of Windows Phone's hits and 1/4th of Linux's with 0.17%.
Interesting factoid, desktop Linux unique hits are double that of Windows Phone on that site.
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