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Personally, I want anything in the cloud on my own terms.

Couple things:

1) It wasn't a "10x better" product. Partly due to M1, partly due to people moving away from browser for apps like Figma + Notion, but it's just not compelling enough to pay ~$30/mo.

2) Low margins. It's not cheap to run their stack— I suspect high price was necessary to offset the cost of running.

My computer was faster and it did not cost an additional $30/month. 

A mighty effort though. Maybe the bandwidth isn't there yet. They seemed to be counting on communication layer developments to be faster than silicon developments.

People that care deeply about speed already have good enough solutions 

For everyone else, there needs to be some other improvement to attract them (UX like Arc, Dapps and ad free like Brave, etc)

Never made sense on the technical fundamentals. They launched at a time when the M1 came out and computers were getting faster and more efficient.

Plus WebAssembly was already getting traction, further making local browser work more efficient and fast