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Josh Miller

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

So I think if you look at it at a top-down perspective, how are we going to beat Google or Apple or Microsoft? it's tricky to give you an answer that is convincing. I think the lived experience so far is we keep our heads down. We optimize for building something that people love and truly helps them in their day-to-day.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And we think about this from a blank page perspective of not what did browsers do yesterday, but how can we build a cohesive day on the internet that saves you time and does your busy work for you? I think it'll be difficult for the other vendors to just bolt that onto their existing products. Now at At some scale, might they do what happened to Slack with Teams? Of course.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And we think about this from a blank page perspective of not what did browsers do yesterday, but how can we build a cohesive day on the internet that saves you time and does your busy work for you? I think it'll be difficult for the other vendors to just bolt that onto their existing products. Now at At some scale, might they do what happened to Slack with Teams? Of course.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And we think about this from a blank page perspective of not what did browsers do yesterday, but how can we build a cohesive day on the internet that saves you time and does your busy work for you? I think it'll be difficult for the other vendors to just bolt that onto their existing products. Now at At some scale, might they do what happened to Slack with Teams? Of course.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

We're in a capitalistic society that will happen. I think there is the room for us to run if we are focused and we are fast and we really do what we're best at. But time will tell.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

We're in a capitalistic society that will happen. I think there is the room for us to run if we are focused and we are fast and we really do what we're best at. But time will tell.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

We're in a capitalistic society that will happen. I think there is the room for us to run if we are focused and we are fast and we really do what we're best at. But time will tell.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

I think the fascinating thing about Safari in general is, Safari, and we have this on good sources, is the most used application in the Apple ecosystem. more time is spent in Safari than any other application. But if you go look at the size of the team and the things they're working on, there's a mismatch there, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

I think the fascinating thing about Safari in general is, Safari, and we have this on good sources, is the most used application in the Apple ecosystem. more time is spent in Safari than any other application. But if you go look at the size of the team and the things they're working on, there's a mismatch there, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

I think the fascinating thing about Safari in general is, Safari, and we have this on good sources, is the most used application in the Apple ecosystem. more time is spent in Safari than any other application. But if you go look at the size of the team and the things they're working on, there's a mismatch there, right?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Because Apple doesn't want the center of gravity to move towards the web on desktop. On mobile, it's more difficult because the browser plays a different role, right? On desktop, it is increasingly the application environment. And on mobile, it's a place where you go to quickly look something up, get some information really quickly, quickly read an article.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Because Apple doesn't want the center of gravity to move towards the web on desktop. On mobile, it's more difficult because the browser plays a different role, right? On desktop, it is increasingly the application environment. And on mobile, it's a place where you go to quickly look something up, get some information really quickly, quickly read an article.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

Because Apple doesn't want the center of gravity to move towards the web on desktop. On mobile, it's more difficult because the browser plays a different role, right? On desktop, it is increasingly the application environment. And on mobile, it's a place where you go to quickly look something up, get some information really quickly, quickly read an article.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And there's some things that Apple does or doesn't do that makes it more difficult. They don't let you bring keychain passwords over. It's more difficult to check out. And so there are some structural challenges created by Apple on iPhones that make it more difficult.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And there's some things that Apple does or doesn't do that makes it more difficult. They don't let you bring keychain passwords over. It's more difficult to check out. And so there are some structural challenges created by Apple on iPhones that make it more difficult.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

And there's some things that Apple does or doesn't do that makes it more difficult. They don't let you bring keychain passwords over. It's more difficult to check out. And so there are some structural challenges created by Apple on iPhones that make it more difficult.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But I'd say the bigger thing is the role of the browser on your phone is it's almost a different product than what it is on desktop. And that's the thing that we think about the most. But I think as we've seen with ArcSearch, there is a desire if you build something truly new for people to change. And it's just a question of, what is the ceiling there on mobile versus desktop?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But I'd say the bigger thing is the role of the browser on your phone is it's almost a different product than what it is on desktop. And that's the thing that we think about the most. But I think as we've seen with ArcSearch, there is a desire if you build something truly new for people to change. And it's just a question of, what is the ceiling there on mobile versus desktop?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

But I'd say the bigger thing is the role of the browser on your phone is it's almost a different product than what it is on desktop. And that's the thing that we think about the most. But I think as we've seen with ArcSearch, there is a desire if you build something truly new for people to change. And it's just a question of, what is the ceiling there on mobile versus desktop?

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Arc creator Josh Miller on why you need a better browser than Chrome

I knew you were going to ask this question because you always ask this question. I wish I had a framework. We think of our work as optimizing for feelings and instinct. I don't know if this is a response to the technology industry that I was brought up in, where you're supposed to be neutral and unopinionated and have frameworks. But our approach is, what are we trying to express here?