Discussion

The Gemini app is now on Mac

Flux159: I'm going to be honest - this is over a year late. I still use ChatGPT on Mac because it actually had a Mac App from May of 2024, whereas I had to go to the Gemini website to use Gemini. It was even worse because of the fragmented experience - there's been an iOS Gemini app for a while now. Integrating Gemini into Chrome is not the same experience as having a standalone app.Now that it's at least here, hopefully Google can continue updating it instead of giving up on it if their metrics don't show as fast growth as iOS or Chrome usage.

xnx: The amount of products and updates shipping from the AI-invigorated Google is mind-boggling.They are leading or highly competitive in every AI segment: foundation model, open-weights model, video model, image model, world model, AI IDE, AI CLI, text-to-music, text-to-speech, etc. etc. etc.

exabrial: > The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experienceOk Google, this is well-earned. This is enough to make me try Gemini over Claude.I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps. One day it's working, next day its not. I'd rather just have releases once it's confirmed working, and something I can roll back if it breaks. I have work to get done, and it's like rolling the dice right now every day.

nozzlegear: I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps.Logging into Discord once a day and it opens and closes itself 3 times while that stupid logo spins and says it's fetching 1 out of 8 updates. What the hell. I actually hate Discord, I would migrate in a heartbeat if I didn't think it'd kill my WoW guild.

straydusk: I'm about as AI-pilled as anyone. Stitch is the only Google powered AI product I use. How are they winning?

comboy: Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?

operatingthetan: CLI is great, probably 90% as good as CC.

girvo: Antigravity CLI or the Gemini one? When I tried the latter about 2 months ago it was shockingly bad, though I was a free user. I assume its better if you're a paying customer?

operatingthetan: It doesn't appear that there is an Antigravity CLI, so the ladder. I'm using a paid account though.

egorfine: Excellent. Now the Project Manager of this app gets a promotion at Google, the team gets disbanded to other projects and this app gets abandoned. Congratulations!

tomhow: Please don't post snarky dismissals like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Apreche: How about making something we actually want, like a GMail app for mac.

46493168: What would that get you over just the chrome version?

jsmo: Never heard of it, seems like a Wix / Canva knock-off?

maz1b: Heard it's written in Swift for this native adaptation. That's a good sign.