Atlassian to buy Arc and Dia developer The Browser Company for $610M (techcrunch.com)
from lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 14:14
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panda_abyss@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 14:53 next collapse

I need to stick AI in something and sell it…

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca on 04 Sep 15:38 collapse

I haven’t been following Atlassian recently and was wondering if you were just tossing that out there… But no, that is literally their plan:

This deal is a bold step forward in reimagining the browser for knowledge work in the AI era,” Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s CEO and co-founder, said in a statement.

“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.

goatinspace@feddit.org on 04 Sep 16:12 next collapse

There are people that can burn 610M

Veedem@lemmy.world on 04 Sep 19:19 next collapse

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dinckelman@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 02:33 next collapse

What a colossal waste of money. The only other company i’d wish this upon would be HP

monogram@feddit.nl on 05 Sep 06:48 next collapse

zen-browser.app

For get about investment funded proprietary software and choose FOSS instead.

lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world on 05 Sep 10:28 collapse

Have you tried it? How has your experience been?

monogram@feddit.nl on 05 Sep 15:52 collapse

Yes I use it daily, honestly I’m surprised people still use a browser that’s not based of FF what with ublock origin being limited by chrome and the obvious proprietary-investment-to-rug-pull Silicon-Valley-economics of the browser company

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 17:27 next collapse

“Together, we’ll create an AI-powered browser optimized for the many SaaS applications living in tabs – one that knowledge workers will love to use every day,” he added.

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puppinstuff@lemmy.ca on 05 Sep 21:35 collapse

They had a browser a lot of knowledge workers loved to use. Then they abandoned it to make an AI agent browser using ChatGPT, month before ChatGPT announced it was making its own browser. Instead of returning to Arc they shelved it regardless as their myopic CEO sought a buyer dumb enough to buy “something-something-AI-something-10x-something.”

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 05 Sep 23:19 collapse

Yeah I know ):

I was looking fowards to arc on linux coming out at some point, now I use zen, it’s better than arc ever was.

sheogorath@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 02:31 collapse

No tab syncing has kept me hostage to Arc on my workstation.

puppinstuff@lemmy.ca on 06 Sep 16:57 next collapse

When tab folders finally landed in Zen Browser I just took a morning and copied them all in manually. So glad I did.

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 07 Sep 05:54 collapse

syncing as in between devices or?

sheogorath@lemmy.world on 07 Sep 06:57 collapse

Syncing between windows. I separate my projects based on spaces and sometimes I need to have multiple windows open. Having a synced tabs state is a huge boon for my productivity tasks.

Blisterexe@lemmy.zip on 07 Sep 20:16 collapse

I’m in the discord and the dev has said it’s the next thing they’re going to add

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone on 05 Sep 21:37 next collapse

the enshittified company bought the enshittified company to form a megazord of enshittification

ripcord@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 01:55 collapse

In what ways has Atlassian enshittified?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 06 Sep 10:09 collapse

It started shitty, so I’m not sure enshittification is really the issue with it.

The UX is appallingly bad, their interpretation of agile development is in no way agile, integrations are inept, functionality is shit, and their whole paradigm seems to be based on user disempowerment and top-down corporate control.

CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world on 06 Sep 02:42 collapse

Never heard of the browsers until now