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  • What is the point of the app if it cannot do anything other than cloud based tasks?
    by Jemm
  • To be honest, I have no idea what kind of user the Gemini app was built for. It's just too frustrating to use
    by jdw64
  • 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.
    by valdrinNereth
  • Why is it frustrating? I use it on MacOS every day, it's quite fine for me.
    by atraac
  • 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?

    by Mashimo
  • And will be EoL'ed in...one, two years?
    by dboreham
  • In case people don't know the Google Graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/
    by reddalo
  • 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?
    by Superbowl5889
  • 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.
    by backrun
  • They already have antigravity for that, I can see these two getting merged sometime in the future.
    by LikelySupernova
  • Google apps don't evolve, they fragment and then die. I'd give this one a year or two at most.
    by esperent
  • 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.

    by _fw
  • they have it now, decided to call it "Notebooks"
    by brahyam
  • 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.
    by ogogmad
  • In which topics Gemini is better? Is it ChatGPT can't handle them or doesn't provide clear explanation?
    by throwaw12
  • 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.
    by darkoob12
  • With the peoples' dependency on gmail (and maybe other services like drive) I wouldn't recommend any of my friends to tie the same account to a Google's AI product that may or may not get them banned for asking something innocent (or not).

    And as it's trivial for Google to link all of our supposedly separate accounts, I wouldn't count on that kind of isolation either.

    Plus it'll be decommissioned in half a year anyway

    by DiskoHexyl
  • 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.
    by valdrinNereth
  • 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.

    by sarjann
  • 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?
    by hahn-kev
  • 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
    by throwaw12
  • Maybe the marketing-slop-AI is forbidden from using the "execute and screenshot" skill?
    by holowoodman
  • yeah, only preview we have is on their socials : https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2098080062570721619
    by EDM115
  • Taking into account how Google apps look like, maybe they are ashamed.
    by hulitu
  • 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.
    by dude250711
  • 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.
    by iAMkenough
  • 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.
    by Sam6late