This story begins almost three years ago, in July 2022. That day I discovered ARC When it was little more than a beautiful idea with exclusive invitations. I tried it, it didn’t convince me. It was too different, too pretentious perhaps. I safari again without looking back.
A year later, second chance. Same conclusion. Arc was still looking like that application that I wanted to teach me to navigate when I already knew how to do it perfectly.
But The summer of 2024 was different. ARC not only convinced me, fascinated me. It became more than a browser. It was my productivity tool.
- Vertical eyelashes.
- The divided eyelashes.
- The spaces.
- The versatile elegance of your interface.
- The way I organized my digital day.
ARC did not sail web pages. I built my workflow.
The record date appears in the ARC adjustments. Almost three years since the first test. Image: Xataka.
And then December arrived. Six months ago. Josh Miller uploaded a video to YouTube. “We are building something new,” he said. His name was day And it was the future of navigation. Arc, of course, would continue to exist, but with “minimum maintenance.” The typical business phrase that means gradual abandonment without saying it explicitly.
The Arc community It exploded. Justly. They had built something beautiful, had achieved a passionate user base, and decided to start from scratch. To pursue the chimera of AI.
A week ago I managed to try it. It is not yet in its final version, but I wanted to prove its foundations. My expectations were low, but not my curiosity.
You open day and see Chrome. Chrome Bonito, Chrome Pulido, Chrome with better animations, but Chrome after all. EITHER ChromiumOh.
- The traditional horizontal interface.
- The address bar above.
- The eyelashes where they have always been.
- No trace of divided eyelashes.
This is day. Tabs, address bar, etc., where they were always before ARC. The differential proposals of ARC, absent. Image: Xataka.
Everything that Arc had revolutionized, back to conventional design. The difference is in the right sidebar. An integrated chatbot. A conversation interface that can see what you are seeing, that you can read your eyelashes, which supposedly understands your context. Is chatgpt, but with access to your browser.
The idea is seductive. Imagine being able to ask your browser what that complex graphic that you are seeing, or ask you to summarize the five articles you have open, or help you write an answer based on all the information you have been reading. The perfect context for perfect assistance. What we have seen in other browsers, but from the roots, not as later patch.
Image: Xataka.
Reality is more mundane.
I asked Dia Dia about the content of the in front of the tab. He made me a suggestion that made no sense. I spent a screenshot to refine your context. He gave me a meaningless advice.
I tried to summarize articles that, praxis – had text integrated into images. He couldn’t read them. He invented answers that were feasible, but not true. And did what any Llm He does when he doesn’t know something: pretend he knows and build a very convincing lie. Dia chatbot uses an OpenAi API after all.
It is the problem of these tools: when they do not know, They don’t say “I don’t know.” They improvise. When you are an expert in the field, the fighter on the fly. When not, they can strain it to you.
AND Then there is the worst: what is missing. There are no vertical eyelashes, no spaces to organize projects, or almost nothing that made Arc great. I wish they include it. But the first glance is a jug of cold water.
Day is what Arc was never: conventional.
Business logic is understandable: ARC was too sophisticated for the average user. He had a pronounced learning curve. His best functions were used by a minority within another minority. The mass market continues to use Chrome because it is simple, familiar, predictable. Convenient.
Día tries to be a browser that anyone can use from day one, but with integrated. The plan must be to capture users who would never have bothered to learn arcbut they would use an improved chrome with the native.
The problem is that it already exists. Or it will exist soon. Is called Chrome and is integrating Gemini. Is called Edge and has co -driver. Is called Operates and integrates ia tools own and others. Day is late for a party already started and without a proposal as differentiating as Arc.
Day responding well a consultation. It is more useful in long pages or documents, where to locate concrete information is more tedious. The problem is that it bases its differential point there, on saving one copy and paste in another chatbot like Chatgpt. Or assume that this is not possible out of day. But it is. Image: Xataka.
If we take away the marketing and elegant presentations with garamond and transparencies, Day is a standard chromium with a chatbot in the sidebar. That’s all. Everything that makes it special is AI, and that AI is not special. It’s GPT reading your eyelashes. You can also invoke several of a tacada. Useful, surely. But little revolutionary.
Meanwhile, ARC is withered. Officially, “in maintenance.” Without new features, without evolution. Those of us who fall in love with their unique value proposal have been abandoned in favor of pursuing a market that perhaps does not exist. Or that is occupied by larger ones.
It is the brilliant object syndrome taken to the business end. ARC had problems, true. The Windows version was much lower, mobile synchronization, very limited; the Bugs They still appeared and some characteristic seemed to implement. But it had a clear identity and a unique value proposal. Era –es– different for good reasons.
Day is different by defer. His AI is today his only letter. In fact Your video tutorial It goes on how to use the chatbot, nothing more. I am not sure that this letter is as strong as its creators believe. And even less smelling that OpenAi prepares his own browser, and that Perplexity already has one on the way.
And here comes something important: Day is in beta. It would be unfair to judge it definitively. But we can judge the background decisions, vision, strategy. And my impression is that The Browser Company has changed a unique and defensible value proposal for a much lighter bet in a saturated market.
They have chosen to compete in AI, not in navigation. They have preferred to follow the mass scale instead of serving their passionate niche.
They may be right, and that the future goes to navigate through conversations with AI, not with clicks and URLs, and therefore the inheritance of ARC does not matter. It may evolve to be something transformative. I may be too nostalgic with ARC and too skeptical with day.
But today, June 2025, Day feels like a concession. As a company that has decided that it is easier to do what everyone does, but a little better, than to continue doing what no one does, but much better.
ARC taught me that browsers could be more than Internet access tools. They could be work environments. They could adapt to you instead of forcing you to adapt to them. They could be personal.
Día has reminded me that companies tend to choose the safest path.
I will continue testing day. I want it to evolve, to return to what has made Arc shine instead of loading it. Show me I’m wrong. It would be great. But today, for the first time in a long time, I see myself again safari or chrome, especially if Arc ends up registered where forgetfulness lives.
And that is the story. The story of when I tried the future and knew my own.
Outstanding image | Xataka, Mockuuups Studio
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