Atlassian to buy Arc and Dia developer The Browser Company for $610M
Atlassian to buy Arc and Dia developer The Browser Company for $610M
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Never heard of the browsers until now
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“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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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.”
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For get about investment funded proprietary software and choose FOSS instead.
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Have you tried it? How has your experience been?
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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
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I need to stick AI in something and sell it…
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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.
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What a colossal waste of money. The only other company i'd wish this upon would be HP
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There are people that can burn 610M
the enshittified company bought the enshittified company to form a megazord of enshittification
In what ways has Atlassian enshittified?
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.