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Josh Miller

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486 total appearances

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

And so what that led to, for better or for worse, was a lot of small features and a lot of small ideas that make your day just a little bit better, save you a couple clicks, that I think has built a very cult-like following in the software, but has made it a bit too unapproachable for the average person in that it is a lot of new ideas.

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

And so what that led to, for better or for worse, was a lot of small features and a lot of small ideas that make your day just a little bit better, save you a couple clicks, that I think has built a very cult-like following in the software, but has made it a bit too unapproachable for the average person in that it is a lot of new ideas.

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

And so what that led to, for better or for worse, was a lot of small features and a lot of small ideas that make your day just a little bit better, save you a couple clicks, that I think has built a very cult-like following in the software, but has made it a bit too unapproachable for the average person in that it is a lot of new ideas.

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

And that's part of what we're working on now is how do we strip away a lot of the experiments that didn't work or didn't work as strongly as we hoped they would to something a lot more focused and a lot more essential, which right now is focused on how do we do your busy work for you?

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

And that's part of what we're working on now is how do we strip away a lot of the experiments that didn't work or didn't work as strongly as we hoped they would to something a lot more focused and a lot more essential, which right now is focused on how do we do your busy work for you?

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

And that's part of what we're working on now is how do we strip away a lot of the experiments that didn't work or didn't work as strongly as we hoped they would to something a lot more focused and a lot more essential, which right now is focused on how do we do your busy work for you?

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

Because people, I think, love our features like when you're playing a YouTube video and you click away, we automatically open a picture in PicturePlayer. Or if we notice you have tabs open that you've had open for a long time that you haven't used, let's just tuck them away neatly for you.

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

Because people, I think, love our features like when you're playing a YouTube video and you click away, we automatically open a picture in PicturePlayer. Or if we notice you have tabs open that you've had open for a long time that you haven't used, let's just tuck them away neatly for you.

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

Because people, I think, love our features like when you're playing a YouTube video and you click away, we automatically open a picture in PicturePlayer. Or if we notice you have tabs open that you've had open for a long time that you haven't used, let's just tuck them away neatly for you.

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

And so we're going to be focused on kind of trimming down the product even more and really trying to enhancing the bit that does your busy work for you and has these little moments of delights.

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

And so we're going to be focused on kind of trimming down the product even more and really trying to enhancing the bit that does your busy work for you and has these little moments of delights.

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

And so we're going to be focused on kind of trimming down the product even more and really trying to enhancing the bit that does your busy work for you and has these little moments of delights.

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

It feels like you already have the power user problem. The way that we started building this product was through the lens of problem statements. And that's how we ended up with so many different solutions and so many different words. But I think the byproduct of that is four years later.

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

It feels like you already have the power user problem. The way that we started building this product was through the lens of problem statements. And that's how we ended up with so many different solutions and so many different words. But I think the byproduct of that is four years later.

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

It feels like you already have the power user problem. The way that we started building this product was through the lens of problem statements. And that's how we ended up with so many different solutions and so many different words. But I think the byproduct of that is four years later.

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

I think we have a much crisper understanding for the average laptop person who, again, doesn't know what a rendering engine is and honestly probably isn't reading The Verge and isn't an early adopter. What are the most painful, annoying, tedious parts of their day on the internet where if we just focused on them... they'd say, wait, I want that.

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

I think we have a much crisper understanding for the average laptop person who, again, doesn't know what a rendering engine is and honestly probably isn't reading The Verge and isn't an early adopter. What are the most painful, annoying, tedious parts of their day on the internet where if we just focused on them... they'd say, wait, I want that.

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

I think we have a much crisper understanding for the average laptop person who, again, doesn't know what a rendering engine is and honestly probably isn't reading The Verge and isn't an early adopter. What are the most painful, annoying, tedious parts of their day on the internet where if we just focused on them... they'd say, wait, I want that.

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

And I do think as much as there are some things that may be power usury, there are other ideas in there that you talk to 10 out of 10 people in this demographic and they go, yeah, I have seven windows and 87 tabs and it's a mess and it's chaotic and I feel overwhelmed. And so we're going to be focused on trying to build an antidote to a few specific problems.

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

And I do think as much as there are some things that may be power usury, there are other ideas in there that you talk to 10 out of 10 people in this demographic and they go, yeah, I have seven windows and 87 tabs and it's a mess and it's chaotic and I feel overwhelmed. And so we're going to be focused on trying to build an antidote to a few specific problems.