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The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian (www.atlassian.com)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36873644

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[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

They lost me at "A.I.".

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I'm very mildly pro-AI, in the sense that I remain optimistic there will be at least a few cool use cases and I'd love to find them.

So I tried Dia... And uninstalled it a few hours later. Why would I want to "chat with my tabs"? Even if I didn't think this was a rubbish use case, every browser comes with a chatbot sidebar/extension/whatever, why would I want to change browsers just for that?

Heavy pass. Also, after how they abandoned Arc, I don't think they can be trusted to develop a product and not pull the rug from under the users when it becomes mildly inconvenient to keep working on it.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh, they had abandoned Arc? Then yeah, doubly dismiss them. It wasn't even old...

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

What happened was, they realised that Arc was a niche product that had a fervient userbase but would never become a mainstream browser, so they announced its development was "complete" and they were moving on to Dia so that they could ~~jump onto the AI bandwagon~~ create the next generation of browser.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

You’d think a company that makes browsers could make more than one browser.

Hell, opera has a flavour for however you’re feeling that minute.

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