My prediction: Arc is irrelevant in five years.
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Act II of Arc Browser [video]
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#12My prediction: Arc is irrelevant in five years.
So the same as today.
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#13I've been using Arc since June 2023. I really like it as a product. But the communication is a bit overwhelming. Their CEO and team are fairly good to make noise (in the good way) on YouTube, twitter. But I guess I cannot catch up with their frequent release notes and videos.
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#14At the most basic level, for the feature that bypasses the search results and takes the user to the page they probably want, my first thought was that they just reinvented the “I’m feeling lucky” button.
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#15My prediction: Arc is irrelevant in five years.
If they can bring some good features others adopt, it’s not all bad.
Opera is/was probably considered an irrelevant browser; it never had big numbers when it came to market share, but they had a lot of innovations that are ubiquitous today.
https://geektechnica.com/8-browser-innovations-started-by-op...
It’s always good to have innovators in the space, even if they aren’t the biggest or most commercially successful. They can push things forward when commercial interest might otherwise hold things back.
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#16I have similar feelings about Arc becoming so tied with AI and that scraping data without showing websites is wrong for internet soul. Feels uncomfortable.
But, so sad that other browsers never put effort on making browser sidebar :( I first enjoyed it with Edge browser but then Arc came and sidebar is incredible. I can't switch to any other browser because of that, I hope they all implement similar (or better) sidebars.
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#17Oh man, Arc user here and genuinely like the product, but they really need to dial back on the self-congratulatory, pretentious nonsense. They are helping a few thousand people skip a few ads, not cure cancer or solve world hunger. The breathing at the start. "This is not your typical announcement" while dropping Steve Jobs's name? Vivaldi's Four Seasons? FFS. Just stick to make tab management better. It's a worthy g…
Reminded me of tables.