The Gemini app is now available for Windows

hahn-kev•24 minutes 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?

holowoodman•3 minutes ago

Maybe the marketing-slop-AI is forbidden from using the "execute and screenshot" skill?

valdrinNereth•39 minutes 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.

dboreham•about 2 hours ago

And will be EoL'ed in...one, two years?

Superbowl5889•about 1 hour 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?

pverghese•about 1 hour ago

Doesn't work on windows arm machines.

vardump•about 1 hour ago

Did Google do something special to block Windows on ARM?

pverghese•13 minutes 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

backrun•about 3 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•about 1 hour ago

Google apps don't evolve, they fragment and then die. I'd give this one a year or two at most.

LikelySupernova•about 2 hours ago

They already have antigravity for that, I can see these two getting merged sometime in the future.

happymellon•22 minutes 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.

jdw64•about 2 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

Mashimo•about 2 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?

jdw64•about 1 hour 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.

valdrinNereth•35 minutes 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.

atraac•42 minutes ago

Why is it frustrating? I use it on MacOS every day, it's quite fine for me.

The Gemini app is now available for Windows

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