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Are Chromebooks hurting Apple as well as Microsoft?

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ITworld; By Jim Lynch
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Today in Open Source: Are Chromebooks a threat to Apple as well as Microsoft? Plus: Does Blu-ray encryption cause piracy? And DistroWatch's rankings for 2012 and 2013.

My guess is that a lot of these Chromebook buyers are Android phone users. They've already broken with Windows on their phones, and now they're ready for the next step by getting rid of Microsoft Windows on their computers. Android users are also known to be budget-conscious folks, and Chromebooks tend to be inexpensive computers.

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