“After this press conference to announce Google’s new Web browser, Chrome, Google cofounder Sergey Brin asked BoomTown’s Kara Swisher if she’d try it out. ‘But you don’t have a Mac version, baby, so no,’ Swisher tells him in this clip, excerpted from Swisher’s longer interview,” Nicholas Carlson reports for ValleyWag.
“‘I know, I know, it’s embarrassing,’ says Brin,” Carlson reports.
As for when the Mac version will arrive, the best Brin (who’s using VMWare to run Chrome on his Mac) could offer was, “I’m asking every day. I hope it’ll be a matter of months.”
Full article, with video, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Brin’s right, it is embarrassing; even more so in that it will take “months” for Google to free its founder from having to slum it with Windows via virtualization in order to run Chrome on his Mac while begging his developers daily for what they should have delivered on launch day. Hey, Sergey, thank Jobs there’s Safari, the world’s best browser: it works on your Mac natively, it’s WebKit-based, and it’s really, really, fast!