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Louis Gray
Google released news of Chrome on Labor Day. Remember they released news of GMail on April Fool's. They sure know how to fill a news hole.
September 1
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I'm guessing Google meant to release this tomorrow. I'd never heard of a modern tech company announcing a significant product via snail mail, but my guess is that if Phillip was in the USA instead of Germany he wouldn't have gotten the scoop on the rest of the tech world, as his copy of McCloud's comic would be waiting until after Labor Day like everyone else.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, that's an interesting, and likely take. On the flip side, wouldn't we have heard from other tech news sources who said they knew but were waiting until Tuesday? Given I haven't heard that, I have to assume the leak/scoop to Google Blogoscoped was intentional.
- Louis Gray
Looks like you were right Kevin: http://smccloud.livejournal.com/15488...
- Benjamin Golub
And read this from Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008...
- Dion Almaer
Another embargo broken anyone?
- Roger Kondrat
"We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too"
- Benjamin Golub
Roger, no embargo was broken by Philipp. He just got a comic book through the post and posted about it.
- Tony Ruscoe
Yay! "We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.", "So check in again tomorrow to try Google Chrome for yourself. We'll post an update here as soon as it's ready."
- Majento
Sigh. Mac and Linux go last again. Quasi-fail.
- Louis Gray
i wonder if it will rival the awesomeness i have in flock.
- Anika Malone
Quasi-fail, Louis? Try COMPLETE fail. Consider that they're using WebKit as the base - and there are plenty of Mac engineers at Google. Nothing would have pushed Safari 4.0 out the door (in beta or final stages) quicker than a Mac version of Chrome (interesting choice of brand, considering how heavily it's associated with Mozilla's XUL).
- l0ckergn0me
I don't think its a complete fail to be Windows-only at launch: their main target is presumably IE, by (eventually) bundling Chrome into the Google Pack that is pre-installed on lots of PCs. IEs 70% browser market share is still large enough to be very threatening to Google, as the Microsoft anti-trust prohibitions expire over the next few years.
- DGentry