“The iPhone of web browsers” is coming: it will be simple but also revolutionary

Readers will no doubt have heard of Arc, a browser launched in 2022. After it came Arc Search, first for iPhone and, recently, also for Android. This is not the mobile version of Arc, but rather a browser that consolidates search results on a single page, much along the lines of what Perplexity does with its pages. This whole premise is to say that now The Browser Company, the company that developed them, has announced that they are working on their third project, which will be… drum roll, a browser! Indeed, a new browser. Josh Miller, the company’s CEO, highlighted some key points about his company’s present and future.

– Arc has grown a lot, but it is clear that it will never become mainstream. Too different from the others, too complicated at first, to the point that even Arc users no longer want new functions, but only more speed and stability. And that’s what they’ll get now, with Arc not being abandoned, but at the same time no longer in active development either.

– The new browser will not be Arc 2.0, but something completely different. On the one hand it will be more traditional (horizontal tabs, for example), but on the other it will be more proactive or focused on AI. The basic idea is that it is a sort of platform rather than a single standalone application.

This new, still anonymous browser (in the sense that it does not have a name) could arrive as early as the beginning of 2025, and will focus everything on initial simplicity, and then slowly demonstrate what it is capable of that is different from all the others. We still don’t know what it is exactly, but we imagine it to be more in line with Arc Search than the first Arc. And that scares us a little, but it also intrigues us. After all, a company called The Browser Company is clearly on a mission to reinvent Internet browsing, and given how much it’s already been revolutionized in recent times (Google, AI and more), it’s a particularly challenging task. difficult.