[Mikeb85]

You do realise that Asus, Lenovo, HP, etc... sell Chromebooks, right? Google sells very few branded as a 'Google' product.

The numbers are out there, but Google isn't releasing numbers because they're a tiny vendor.

[ntakasaki]

You mean Google does not know exactly how many Chromebooks are being sold by Asus, Lenovo, HP, etc?

[Mikeb85]

They probably do, but all those are public companies. They all report sales a certain way. Google isn't going to mess with reporting sales that other companies are making. That's irresponsible.

[jhall1468]

No. Why would they? You think Asus, Lenovo and HP are giving sales data to Google?

[jeromegv]

They do know about Android activations, it's not so far fetched.

[robotresearcher]

All the Chromebooks phone home regularly checking for updates, etc. Google knows exactly how many have been used and are in use now.