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Posted by quysala12 5 hours ago

The Gemini app is now available for Windows(blog.google)
48 points | 35 comments
hahn-kev 2 hours ago|
It's crazy to me that there's no screenshots on the blog post. And when you click through to download it there's a bunch of aspirational pictures, but only one short clip showing what it actually looks like. Why? Is it too hard to show a screenshot?
Sam6late 1 hour ago||
It is just an 11.8 MB poor alternative to the browser, it is offering keyboard shortcuts and the ability to read your screen, you still need internet connection and manually authorizing access.
zahlman 46 minutes ago||
> you still need internet connection

Well, yes? Did you expect a local model?

iAMkenough 1 hour ago|||
Marketing said "let's make it evergreen" since they can't count on the Product and Legal team keeping it consistent for the next few months or so.
holowoodman 2 hours ago|||
Maybe the marketing-slop-AI is forbidden from using the "execute and screenshot" skill?
dude250711 1 hour ago|||
To me as an outsider, it seems that anything Google employees do is for internal promotion; as such, no screenshots are needed, the fact that something new had been delivered is enough.
throwaw12 1 hour ago||
Because app design can change, if you are showing it in the website, everytime app design changes you need to update website screenshots as well to stay consistent
ChrisRR 1 hour ago||
I'm sure given all of their devs at google, they can task someone with taking screenshots.

Or can gemini generate a script to automatically update the screenshots when updated?

throwaw12 58 minutes ago||
question would be, is it necessary to introduce another point of failure?

of course it is possible, but is this the right time to engineer that solution and make automated screenshot uploads, or connect it to gemini to upload screenshots from time to time?

sarjann 1 hour ago||
I still can't stand the fact that in order to use their mobile app you must allow sharing data for training. No thanks will close the app and it seems like they follow the same thing with their desktop app.

Outside of that, if I want to use Gemini through the browser they link allowing your data to be trained on with persistence of chats. If I don't want my data trained on I must allow them to train on my data.

For those reasons it's pretty much unusable for me.

darkoob12 16 minutes ago||
Is it still gemini 3.6? It's crazy that i still have 3.6 and if you want 3.8 you need to use API.
valdrinNereth 2 hours ago||
About time, I've been having resource usage and stuttering issues on browser from time to time (both on Firefox and Chromium). It seems a little bit better on desktop. I still don't understand why aren't they merging Antigravity - Gemini - Spark under one app though. Antigravity is still looks confusing to me.
_fw 1 hour ago||
My biggest bugbear with Gemini is that I can’t organise chats into folders and projects.

It’s such a powerful model, truly useful for general purpose and marketing tasks… but the UX is basic beyond belief.

I literally find myself using AI Studio for general tasks as it’s a better workflow.

brahyam 22 minutes ago|
they have it now, decided to call it "Notebooks"
larodi 40 minutes ago||
Sorry, but nobody really cares. In the objective sense, indeed. There are so many players already in this area, and Google's products in this area do not stand out with anything particularly impressive (at this moment, perhaps if they released in 2023 we'd be having different conversation).

Saying this as s.o. calling their APIs on a daily basis for work, but would never let their models touch my everyday OS.

ogogmad 1 hour ago||
Just wanted to say that if you want to learn any hard topic, Gemini > ChatGPT. I pay for both. Don't yet know about Claude.
throwaw12 1 hour ago|
In which topics Gemini is better? Is it ChatGPT can't handle them or doesn't provide clear explanation?
ogogmad 1 hour ago||
ChatGPT knows topics, but is awful at explaining them. That said, the v6 release of ChatGPT seems to have improved at this.

> In which topics

Graduate-level mathematics.

backrun 5 hours ago||
Interesting. I wonder if this will evolve into something closer to Codex or Claude Code, where it can actually work across files and tasks on your computer, not just act as a desktop chatbot.
esperent 3 hours ago||
Google apps don't evolve, they fragment and then die. I'd give this one a year or two at most.
LikelySupernova 4 hours ago||
They already have antigravity for that, I can see these two getting merged sometime in the future.
happymellon 2 hours ago|||
There will be a new replacement app to combine them, but it will only handle around 60% of the functionality of both.

All three will receive no further updates.

iAMkenough 1 hour ago|||
They'll launch it as Google Gravity, because the anti- was always a negative that Marketing didn't like using, and alliteration tickles your brain better.

Also, that it tries to be the answer to the "everything app" and suck up resources and positions like a blackhole, as bright shining SVPs eventually implode into their golden parachutes.

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