The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by thm » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

The Gemini app is now on Mac
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Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by originalvichy » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

I wonder if they will finally let you use past chats without having to turn on the data sharing, since it’s possible to store chat context on disk. (No chance).

Re: The Gemini app is now on Mac

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Post by exabrial » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:11 PM UTC

> The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience

Ok 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.

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Post by antipaul » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:22 PM UTC

Seems like the most basic thing ever.

Can’t even use the new Gemma on device model… no model selection besides fast/normal/thinking.

Also requires Google login

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Post by xnx » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:38 PM UTC

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.

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Post by Flux159 » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:40 PM UTC

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.

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Post by verdverm » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:42 PM UTC

antipaul wrote: post #4

Seems like the most basic thing ever. Can’t even use the new Gemma on device model… no model selection besides fast/normal/thinking. Also requires Google login

Google models are good, their products are all subpar

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Post by verdverm » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:44 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #5

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.

Their "ai-invigorated" GCP UI has been degrading substantially. It's becoming unusable and slower than Jira (which has actually vastly improved over the last several years). It currently has an expanding state problem (we suspect) because a change in one part of the UI is not reflected in the validation of other fields. Even clearing browser cache does not fix the issues. At least the CLI still works, but that is largely trad machine generated from schemas.

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Post by shrx » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC

Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.

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Post by straydusk » Wed, Apr 15, 2026, 10:08 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #5

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.

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