Isn't Atlassian where products go to die? :) Is this is an acquihire? Atlassian does not seem to have strategic overlap with making a browser in any meaningful way I can think of.
Which products have ton to Atlassian to die?
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> Nobody wants to use an Atlassian browser. False. On my work machine, I would grasp at any straw that promised to make JIRA less annoying.
Based on my usage of Jira over the years, I believe all the annoying parts of Jira come from _within_ the walls of Atlassian HQ...
This. They consistently ignore user feedback on problems with their ui. It’s really a mess and slow as hell.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
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> The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform. Marc Andreessen said famously (or at least is paragraphed as saying) in 1994 that the "Browser is the Operating System" and people have been doing riffs on that since then. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/04/22/always... https://www.theguardian.com…
> Marc Andreessen said famously (or at least is paragraphed as saying) in 1994 that the "Browser is the Operating System" and people have been doing riffs on that since then. Isn't that downstream of Sun Microsystems’ old slogan: The Network is the Computer ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Network_is_the_Computer
Sometime I said to myself. If I hacked someone's PC, his hard drive will become my NAS.
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Same as Edge & Chrome - primarily to funnel users to web pages, which in turn powers engagement/searches & ads. Once you have enough users on a browser, the business play is ad revenue.
How do Edge & Chrome collect ad revenue?
They don't directly, but they are the major source of ad revenue for search engines & content, since they drive both the search and page view traffic. Besides regular browsing, examples of browser features that drive ad revenue include search suggestions in the address bar, and the browser homepage (Edge defaults to msn content, used to just show msn.com earlier).
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#505$610M, all cash??? How were they worth that much... all they seemed to ever do was rebrand
"Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (especially those with imaginative interfaces). That’s our secret sauce. It lets ex-iOS engineers prototype native browser UI quickly, without touching C++." https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc...
Probably a Swift wrapper for the Chromium Embedded Framework.
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I’d like to ask the same thing. The main things I want from my browser are for it to be a good browser . Fast and secure with excellent tab and bookmark management capabilities. Anything else except maybe ad blocking is extraneous. I understand that a lot of people live in their browsers, but for web apps I’d rather split them out into “installed” PWAs and have them benefit from system app/window management facilitie…
I want a browser in my apps, not apps in my browser. The whole thing has just gone completely backwards in the last 20 years. Browsers make terrible operating systems. People live in their browsers because they have to, not because they want to.
Personally I want the browser to disappear for applications. For some reason this has never been implemented well.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#507I've switched to Zen browser recently (I like it's spaces and folder structure to organize work on a daily basis, same as Arc). fFox nightly is not there yet but it's getting close with tabs on the left..
Zen is nice, but it's nowhere near as powerful as Arc is. It's still missing a lot of Arc's features like Air Traffic Control.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#508The strategic insight behind Arc was perfect – your browser IS the Operating System, and so we should build a browser that can function as that platform. Arc had pretty good market validation with early adopters, they say that growth was flattened out but IMO that's normal for most products, and it's up to the company to find out WHY growth flattened and then solve that problem. Not kill the product and chase some en…
Spent more money on marketing + steve jobs cosplaying than building a browser that is better than chrome but had zero revenue for years to show for it. They betted on the possibility that OpenAI or Perplexity would buy them. With the Google monopoly suit not requiring them to sell Chrome after all, there was no reason to raise any more money as they continued to lose money. That looks like an exit on terrible terms,…
Hard for it not to be better than Chrome, considering that it’s a Chrome fork with a few years of extra engineering thrown at it.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#509I'm a huge fan of Arc and generally not a fan of TBCNY due to their abandonment of the browser for their AI hype machine, Dia. What's odd about this acquisition is that the move to Dia was (publicly) presented as a move toward the consumer; that consumers weren't ready for a radical reinvention of the browser interface so it made sense to revert to something more standard if you wanted to do something new with the br…
> Atlassian, tho, has nothing for the regular every-day consumer, they make SaaS for business.
They do - Trello.
Re: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company
#510$610M, all cash??? How were they worth that much... all they seemed to ever do was rebrand
"Arc isn’t just a Chromium fork. It runs on custom infrastructure we call ADK — the Arc Development Kit. Think of it as an internal SDK for building browsers (especially those with imaginative interfaces). That’s our secret sauce. It lets ex-iOS engineers prototype native browser UI quickly, without touching C++." https://open.substack.com/pub/browsercompany/p/letter-to-arc...
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