"Chromebooks have in just the past eight months snagged 20 percent to 25
percent of the U.S. market for laptops that cost less than $300..."[1]
I have no idea how many pageviews we get coming from ChromeOS devices, and
I suspect it's hard to differentiate from regular Chrome visits on other
systems? Anyway, sales trends clearly suggest they are becoming more of a
niche to pay attention to.
It might be nice to have an official Wikipedia Chrome app. There are a few
in the Web Store now,[2] but they're not great. For Chrome OS users, the
main advantages of having an app, even if all it does is redirect to the
website, is the ability to add it to your Chrome homescreen and the dock.
This is probably not such a big market that the Foundation would spend any
money developing for it, but I think it's probably not hard, and anyway
Google building an OS with the Web as its backbone is kind of cool.
1.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-10/google-chromebook-under-300-defies…
Steven