Google to ship Chromebook into India by early 2012
17 Nov 2011
Internet giant Google's Chromebook, the mobile device designed for web browsing and running on its Chrome Operating System, is likely to start shipping to India by early 2012.
At an interaction with the media in Bangalore, Sundar Pichai, senior vice-president, Chrome and Apps, Google, said, ''I would be very surprised if Chromebooks are not shipped in India by early 2012. We see India as a huge potential market for us,'' he said.
He said Chrome was very popular on laptops, which are used 98 per cent of the time for browsing and he believed it was only natural that Google would take the next step of building an OS to bring the full power of the web to users in a fast, simple and more secure package.
Last month saw Chrome overtake Microsoft's Internet Explorer as the most popular browser in India.
Chromebook first started global shipments in June with devices manufactured by Acer and Samsung.
According to Pichai, who heads the product management and innovation efforts for Google's consumer products including Chrome, Chrome OS, Gmail and Google Docs, says the user experience was the key.