Jack Baty | But you ARE building a web browser:
I love Arc. It's great. The team building Arc is enthusiastic, talented, and obviously love what they're doing. But I have to admit that their year-end video "We're not building a web browser" has me a little concerned. I mean, you are building a web browser. Be excited, sure, but calm down a little on the change-the-world rhetoric. It's still a web browser. And the "I remember when I used ... https://pawel.orzech.me/2023/12/22/jack-baty-but.html
@pawel Glad it wasn't just me! I've calmed down a little about it since then, though :)
@jbaty I wish Arc would get the basics right though, because right now is kind of unusable
@pawel That makes it rough. FWIW I've not noticed any significant issues here.
@jbaty interesting, maybe it's me with my lots and lots of tabs… but chrome works fine with that amount of load! eh
@pawel I bet they meant that Arc won't be just a browser in the future. I see them making a Chromebook-like computer, where Arc is a whole OS, not just a single utility on your computer
@oskar i'd actually like that, but their newest vid i think isn't about that