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Maybe people just don't want this "thin client" inspired cloud shit that gives Microsoft or Google control of your data.
As the article mention, Chromebooks are also in decline, and good riddance!
It's funny how Netbooks showed that Linux is a viable solution for small Arm devices, and works way better than Windows for it. But no vendor is making this for Arm, despite obvious advantages.
It may be a niche market initially, but so were smartphones before the iPhone and before they were called smartphones. And today smartphones are the biggest market in devices for consumer computing.
Netbooks were enjoying similar success, until they became loaded with the inferior Windows OS, that made them worse to actually use.