I love the Arc Browser, but they discontinued development on that. I honestly have no interest in Dia at this point. AI is already available in any of the tools that I would want it in, and I don't think I would want any one company having visibility into more of my apps and data.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#122I never understood how the Browser Company expected to be successful on its own terms. Now I guess we have the answer: they don't. Wild that someone else's browser technology mixed with generic AI is worth $610m. Bubble, you say?
How are they not successful? They are selling for $610M. Did you not think that was the goal all along?
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#123I would've actually expected a buyer like OpenAI or Anthropic, if I'm being perfectly honest. Atlassian is such a strange buyer. $610m in cash is really low in the grand scheme of AI pricing too. If they're only worth $610m, I feel like this says a lot that "AI browsers" aren't actually worth that much. Remember, Instagram was $1b. The Windsurf acquihire was $2.4b and there are surely a lot more people in business th…
Agreed, OpenAI and Anthropic want to get as close to the user as possible. Browser is used more often than a specific website or standalone desktop app and much less work than an entire OS. Raycast also seems well positioned but perhaps more niche.
Perhaps Atlassian was sitting on cash and needed to make some bets. If you can build a big enough user base for a browser it can earn handsomely from AdWords type referral fees. Look at what Google pays Apple to be default on Safari and how much referral spend Chrome recouped for Google etc. Maybe Atlassian will try and promote Dia to its customer base and look to launch more AI type commercial product discovery experiences like Perplexity Shopping.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#124I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…
Hey, give them a break. Arc is like... 2 years old. You can't expect anyone to maintain legacy code THAT OLD! That's like 17 hot new frameworks out of date!
yea, I guess Google, Microsoft, Apple and Mozilla also ditch their work after only two years as well...
Also 2 years or even 4 years is not that long at all
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#125What was the Browser Company even doing? First they had a successful consumer product with Arc as a Chrome clone, then they decided to shut it down for...a whole new browser called Dia that essentially acted as a browser extension that so many vibe coded clones were made of? What was even the point of all this roundabout engineering and the time and manpower to do so? What a waste. This seems more like an acquihire t…
Why would anyone acquire a company that made a successful VSCode fork or a wrapped Chromium browser? I expect these people making such decisions to be far from understanding tech behind it.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#126I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…
Yep, you nailed it. Why would I try/migrate to a new workflow after they axed my old one. You can't rebuild customer trust after that
I just switched to Zen instead.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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#128It was nice knowing them. > less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser Yes Gartner, let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web - there's definitely some business on splitting that up. I'm sure atlassian people love that idea.
It wouldn't be the worst event of that type or even unprecedented. HTTP/3 is not even TCP and barely HTTP anymore. HTTP/3, QUIC, was openwashed through the IETF by google/ms/apple and can't even connect to a website unless that website gets continuing approval from a third party corporation for existing (a CA TLS cert, no self signed, no plain text). It is "secure enterprise HTTP" with every one of it's architectural and implementation choices being driven by the needs and use cases of for-profit enterprises. It is a fairly crap protocol for human persons and the web and sites as we know it.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#129I lost all faith in The Browser Company when they went into a maintenance-only mode with Arc to shift to Dia, without any real announcement. Just a reply to a Twitter post calling them out. They figured no one would notice. I think they eventually addressed it after some public pressure, but I don’t think they sold the decision well. AI seems like a feature to add to existing browsers, not something that needs its ow…
I also hated that they were trying to make it a free tool, which would mean selling user data to make money, and would require growth at all costs.
These days, I'm trying to migrate to paid tools. I would much rather work with a slower growing company that has a real business model other than grow and sell out.