The Mac App Arc Set Out to Re-Invent Browser AS AS ANTERNETET Computer ”App – someting Which Felt More Personal and Usable than Mainstream Browsers.
Less That Two Years Later, The Company Has announced that this stops the arc in favor of the new Applications-DIA-Kotoroy also acts as the future use of the Internet …
arc, perhaps, did not give up the market leaders such as Chrome and Safari, but it created a loyal and enthusiastic base of users on the Mac. The initial goal of the company seemed very in accordance with Mac Ethos. We wanted to build something, which seemed to be “your home on the Internet” – for working projects, personal life, all the hours that you spent in the browser every day. Something, which is more like a product from Nintendo or Disney than from a browser seller. Something with taste, care, feeling. And we called this North Star Vision “Internet Computer”.
Given that the company saw ARC as the future of Internet access, it surprised many when it began to work on a new application with the merits of the same purpose, Dia. Which, probably, will become an even greater surprise – and disappointment is that the arc is now ceasing.
The CEO of the company Josh Miller today wrote a long open letter explaining the decision. He said that the ARC did not star as hoped by the company, to a large extent because it had a steep initial learning curve. But for most people, ARC was just too different, with too much new things to study, for too little reward. Many things that the company considered the main functions was used only by a tiny minority of users. Where in an open letter it is said that the Mac application is stopping? As far as I can read, they are still making service updates, as they did for several months. To my surprise, this is much faster, and the interface is excellent. If not shiny.
Safari, on the other hand, became a bloated mess. I don’t understand this anymore: profiles, groups of inserts, good incense, ICloud tabs … I am lost in the interface. Moreover, it differs on iPhone, iPad and MacOS. That is why now it is concentrated exclusively on Dia.
At an early stage, Scott Forstal told us that the arc is felt like a saxophone-model but difficult to study. Then he challenged us: do it a piano. Something that everyone can sit down and play. Now this is the idea standing behind Dia: to hide the complexity behind familiar interfaces […]
[simplicity, speed and safety] – everything that should be part of the product’s foundation. Not for the next. When we extended the boundaries of whether it was really in ARC 2.0 last summer, we found that there were shortcomings in the arc, which were too large to cope with a retrocitting formation, and that the creation of a new type of software (and fast) requires a new type of foundation. Miller says that this is because the ARC was built on a development kit, which is a “secret sauce” of the company, and he cannot ADK with an open source, without doing the same with this. The application is currently in alpha testing and will open next to the ARC participants. You can read the Full letter here.
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