The Gemini app is now available for Windows(blog.google)
44 pointsby quysala124 hours ago12 comments
  • hahn-kev2 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?
    • Sam6latean 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.
      • zahlman3 minutes ago
        > you still need internet connection

        Well, yes? Did you expect a local model?

    • iAMkenoughan 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.
    • dude250711an 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.
    • holowoodmanan hour ago
      Maybe the marketing-slop-AI is forbidden from using the "execute and screenshot" skill?
    • throwaw12an 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
      • ChrisRR40 minutes 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?

        • throwaw1215 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?

  • sarjannan 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.

  • valdrinNereth2 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.
  • _fw42 minutes 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.

  • ogogmadan 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.
    • throwaw12an hour ago
      In which topics Gemini is better? Is it ChatGPT can't handle them or doesn't provide clear explanation?
      • ogogmadan 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.

  • backrun4 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.
    • esperent3 hours ago
      Google apps don't evolve, they fragment and then die. I'd give this one a year or two at most.
    • LikelySupernova3 hours ago
      They already have antigravity for that, I can see these two getting merged sometime in the future.
      • happymellon2 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.

      • iAMkenoughan 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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  • dboreham4 hours ago
    And will be EoL'ed in...one, two years?
    • reddalo14 minutes ago
      In case people don't know the Google Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
    • Superbowl58892 hours ago
      i was looking for this comment. raises question how managements work at big tech. why didn't they release in first hand along with androud and ios apps, only long-standing apps are the one that started before generative ai stepped. whats the vision here?
  • pverghese2 hours ago
    Doesn't work on windows arm machines.
    • vardump2 hours ago
      Did Google do something special to block Windows on ARM?
      • pverghesean hour ago
        Specifically a stack overflow bug. So the app wont start. Possibly because the app is running through the prism emulation layer on windows for arm
  • jdw643 hours ago
    To be honest, I have no idea what kind of user the Gemini app was built for. It's just too frustrating to use
    • Mashimo3 hours ago
      I have not used the windows app, but the android one works just fine. Same as chatgpt.

      You enter prompts and images and get a respond back.

      What issues are you experiencing?

      • jdw642 hours ago
        The Spark feature's UI isn't as good as the others.

        For example, I'm not sure if it should prominently show recent workload, and unless I use MCP to manipulate files on my computer, local file manipulation isn't possible. Personally, I don't think it's going to be that useful.

    • valdrinNereth2 hours ago
      Not "that" bad, but I get frustrated as well since I've got used to GUI for Claude Desktop. In comparison all of the AI stuff for Google looks a little bit confusing and frustrating imo.
    • atraac2 hours ago
      Why is it frustrating? I use it on MacOS every day, it's quite fine for me.
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