It makes it sound like Canonical made some sort of concerted effort, didn't they just package Chrome (or do the Chrome people do that)?
Packaging and uploading to the repos is work of course but I imagine most of that is automated, the feeling here is that Canonical strived in some way to get this result. I'd be interested to know what Canonical did out of the ordinary to get to this result?
Funnily, Chrome 38 is now out (http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/10/stable-chan...) after an emergency release, which shows how long these press releases take to plan.