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>They lost the mobile phone, but I bet they will win the hybrid tablet/netbooks one, given how Android tablets disappeared from many consumer shops here in Germany, only to be replaced by Windows 10 ones.

That could just be a regional anomaly.



Then it is an European regional anomaly, because I have seen it in other countries that I visit regularly (southern Europe).

On the other hand, speaking about regional anomalies, I almost never seen Chromebooks on sale, or people using them. Yet they apparently sell like hot cakes in US.


Can confirm that this is the case here in the UK as well.


It is also the case in Australia, based on my experience Windows tablets are at least as common as Android ones. If it's a regional anomaly, that has to be a very wide region then :-)

Jokes apart, I have noticed that in developing countries (I regularly visit Thailand for example) Android tablets are still more common than Win 10 ones, I believe it's because in those countries many people were first exposed to computing in the form of a smartphone, so they prefer a mobile OS like Android, whereas in the western world most people (except perhaps very young people) were accustomed to use a personal computer long before they even had a smartphone.




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