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“Whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM”

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Stephen Shankland
Jun 5, 2009

“”In order to get more feedback from developers, we have early
developer channel versions of Google Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux,
but whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM,” Google product
managers Mike Smith and Karen Grunberg said in a blog post,
evidently trying to employ a little reverse psychology. “Unless of
course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete,
unpredictable and potentially crashing software.””


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