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Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by Taywee »

Nextgrid wrote: post #6
gabereiser wrote: post #2

“It will be free upfront; the team is looking at developing premium subscription features for enterprise users, perhaps somewhere around $12 a month, echoing the freemium model of Slack Technologies Inc., Dropbox Inc., and other productivity services.” Good luck with that. The majority of browsers that were commercially closed software didn’t make it. If it’s open source then it will be ridiculed for not having an op…

> The majority of browsers that were commercially closed software didn’t make it Keep in mind that the last time this was tried, free/open-source alternatives were on-par if not better and the web was much less hostile. Nowadays, not only is the web teeming with hostility that can best be addressed by a browser, but the closest free/open-source solution (Firefox) is half-baked and doesn't actually solve many of these…

Which issues do Firefox fail to solve?

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by WesolyKubeczek »

nwienert wrote: post #3

It's hard to read articles with this unabashed of a tone, feels like much of the company's own claims are uncritically re-printed.

You’d be amazed how many such articles and reviews are ads in disguise.

…Sometimes though, you might not have enough dough for the disguise.

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by ushakov »

> Hovering the mouse over a Google Calendar button will surface a tiny panel of upcoming appointments. Spotify comes with an embedded player to shuffle through songs

how long until this feature breaks, because they rely on third-party APIs like Google's that change all the time?

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by stevenhuang »

nwienert wrote: post #3

It's hard to read articles with this unabashed of a tone, feels like much of the company's own claims are uncritically re-printed.

Their characterisation of power users' bad tab management is certainly contrived, but it's cool to see their take on a new browser ui.

Their proposed UI would be familiar to many FF vertical tab/tree tab users.

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by 225beef »

geogra4 wrote: post #5

Is there any reason that they couldn't build this ui on top of chrome? I've seen quite a lot of chrome based browsers with interesting uis

Im a beta tester for this product and it does use Chromium under the hood, pre-bundled with uBlock no less.

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by ushakov »

ushakov wrote: post #14

> Hovering the mouse over a Google Calendar button will surface a tiny panel of upcoming appointments. Spotify comes with an embedded player to shuffle through songs how long until this feature breaks, because they rely on third-party APIs like Google's that change all the time?

also why does a music player and calendar widget needs to be in a browser?

it's already implemented in system-level ui (at least on macOS and Gnome)

Re: Arc Browser Company: Chrome and Safari face a new challenger

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Post by IceDane »

Wow, is this a serious article? I honestly felt like I was reading the onion for a bit.

This is just yet another tech bro trying to "reinvent" the browser by giving certain web applications a more first class experience and shuffling around(and hiding) UI elements. Opera has been doing a lot of neat stuff in this space for years, and we all know how well it's going for them and their market share.

It will never cease to baffle me how easily some people manage to get other people to throw money at them. I'm sure you can sell some $12 subscription to a macOS hipster productivity addict who is already subbing to 15 other shiny-looking macOS-only apps, but otherwise I hope your investors are ready for you to capture a whopping 1-2% of the browser market share like opera.

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