I’m out of the loop - what happened with Apple’s Photos app? I’ve seen their marketing from announcements earlier in the year and was looking forward to the update - is it underwhelming?
Tabs was such an obviously good idea all the browsers copied it in short order. Anything arc builds on top of chromium seems destined for the same fate once millions are using it.
If you want to change behavior you have to start with a clear mainstream user need, not building features for power users and hoping they trickle down.
How we use the web today, with the Chrome engine and skins as the user agent, seems like the last decade's local optimum. The community is increasingly iterating to the next leap, and I don't think the winning companies will be perplexity.ai, Anthropic 's compute API, meta's Ray-Bans, or some browser ChatGPT extension startup. There is a lot of room for new winners.
I do agree with ZIRP comments saying this is NOT a matter like Zoom doing everything 10% better to be enough: browser teams need to be thinking 10X+ better on broad use. Brave tapped into the privacy & ads psyche, which is a leap for a large niche, but still not enough compared to some sort of more ambitious Jarvis etc rethink.
No one can know what the winning form factors will be without trying and finding out, so IMO, the next few years are a lot more interesting wrt UX then the last 10+!
Personally I've always wondered why the taskbar and toolbars didn't switch to the side once resolutions got to and especially beyond 1080p
Somehow tab management is the killer feature that will change browsers?