A short conversational transcript (YouTube) where two speakers discuss ARC browser’s earlier strong community-building and subsequent missteps that alienated users. They note ARC’s failure to listen to its community, mention emerging open-source competitors, and one speaker reports switching to Microsoft Edge on macOS, praising its sidebar tabs and Chrome-based performance.
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It came to mind the way in which ARC browser did their, does their marketing or they used to do their marketing. Not, not, not as much anymore because they're concentrated on building other stuff. But they were really good and really smart about.
They were, weren't they?
And they were.
And they did just such a shitty job of just kicking their customers to the curb. I handed.
Yeah. I mean, I don't really know what, I don't know.
Maybe they'll, maybe they'll come out with, you know, the DIA browser is something that is world shattering but to be honest, they, they lost a lot of goodwill with me.
I, they lost a lot of goodwill with. I think that was a great example of not listening to people. They built a really big and awesome community of raving fans.
Yeah.
And they didn't listen and they lost a lot of people. And there are, you know, ARC competitors showing up these days that are open source and.
Look, I'm gonna have to. I'm almost embarrassed to say what I'm going to say. Okay. And you know, I already made fun of Bill Gates and I already talked, you know, talked dirty about, about Windows and I have to come to admittance. I'm using the Microsoft Edge browser. What? Yeah. And I'm liking it.
When did that happen?
Well, maybe, I don't know, maybe a couple of weeks ago or so or three weeks ago.
You're using Microsoft Edge on Mac os?
Yep.
That's a thing.
It is and I'm happy. It's a lot like arc. It has the side, it has tabs on the sidebar that you can pin and it has, it is built on Chrome kind of like ARC was, but it's not quite as much of a memory hog. I tried another couple of browsers because I didn't know where to go and I couldn't make them work for me and I'm happy with it. So. Turned over to the dark side. Yeah, I know.
Using Microsoft products.
Yeah.
I walk one day into your office and you're going to be using a Microsoft Edge Surface or whatever they're.
No, let's not go that far. I'm still a fanboy. An Apple fanboy. Hey, don't let me down, Tim.
