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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

To be honest, it was an intentional decision, but it was a little decision. And for better and worse, the theme of my answers in this podcast will probably be we come back to the individual at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.

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

To be honest, it was an intentional decision, but it was a little decision. And for better and worse, the theme of my answers in this podcast will probably be we come back to the individual at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.

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

If there's one thing they want from their rendering engine, if they're familiar with what a rendering engine is, it's that their web apps work. So for example, for whatever reason, we have a lot of teachers and people in education using Arc. A lot of software at school districts are optimized and actually only work in Chrome-based browsers.

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

If there's one thing they want from their rendering engine, if they're familiar with what a rendering engine is, it's that their web apps work. So for example, for whatever reason, we have a lot of teachers and people in education using Arc. A lot of software at school districts are optimized and actually only work in Chrome-based browsers.

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

If there's one thing they want from their rendering engine, if they're familiar with what a rendering engine is, it's that their web apps work. So for example, for whatever reason, we have a lot of teachers and people in education using Arc. A lot of software at school districts are optimized and actually only work in Chrome-based browsers.

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

So it was intentional in that we wanted to make sure we could strip out a lot of the kind of tracking and nefarious parts of Chromium that at least don't align with our values. But once we realized we could do that, we thought, hey, Almost every website will work on this rendering engine. We want to make your day better at 2 PM.

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

So it was intentional in that we wanted to make sure we could strip out a lot of the kind of tracking and nefarious parts of Chromium that at least don't align with our values. But once we realized we could do that, we thought, hey, Almost every website will work on this rendering engine. We want to make your day better at 2 PM.

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

So it was intentional in that we wanted to make sure we could strip out a lot of the kind of tracking and nefarious parts of Chromium that at least don't align with our values. But once we realized we could do that, we thought, hey, Almost every website will work on this rendering engine. We want to make your day better at 2 PM.

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

Let's jump to that part, to the end person facing part of the software.

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

Let's jump to that part, to the end person facing part of the software.

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

Let's jump to that part, to the end person facing part of the software.

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

I honestly don't think I understand the question.

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

I honestly don't think I understand the question.

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

I honestly don't think I understand the question.

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

Yes. To be totally honest, I regret many of those words. I wish we didn't have so many new concepts. And I think it's too complicated of a piece of software for many people. And I think we have to make it a lot more simple. But where it came from was... wait a minute, if you look at someone's tab bar and they have 50 tabs open and they're really teeny tiny and there are a lot of duplicates, why?

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

Yes. To be totally honest, I regret many of those words. I wish we didn't have so many new concepts. And I think it's too complicated of a piece of software for many people. And I think we have to make it a lot more simple. But where it came from was... wait a minute, if you look at someone's tab bar and they have 50 tabs open and they're really teeny tiny and there are a lot of duplicates, why?

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

Yes. To be totally honest, I regret many of those words. I wish we didn't have so many new concepts. And I think it's too complicated of a piece of software for many people. And I think we have to make it a lot more simple. But where it came from was... wait a minute, if you look at someone's tab bar and they have 50 tabs open and they're really teeny tiny and there are a lot of duplicates, why?

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

You don't need five versions of the same Google Doc. How can we solve that problem? And so most of the new concepts came from the perspective of what is broken, what is wrong with the way people use their browsers today, and can we invent a way to alleviate that problem?

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

You don't need five versions of the same Google Doc. How can we solve that problem? And so most of the new concepts came from the perspective of what is broken, what is wrong with the way people use their browsers today, and can we invent a way to alleviate that problem?

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

You don't need five versions of the same Google Doc. How can we solve that problem? And so most of the new concepts came from the perspective of what is broken, what is wrong with the way people use their browsers today, and can we invent a way to alleviate that problem?