Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature

Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature by josephg on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:39AM (#27503095)

Yep absolutely. Another way to think about it is that using the web doesn't mean we delete all our local native apps. As users we don't gather into camps who only use one type of software or another. Modern computing environments are mixed spaces full of all sorts of different kinds of software. It very rarely makes sense to be exclusionary or exclusive about any particular type.

Gemini is no different. There's overlap with the web's use cases, but its its own thing. As a user, why not both?

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Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature by krapp on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @05:41AM (#27513026)

>Gemini is no different. There's overlap with the web's use cases, but its its own thing. As a user, why not both?

What does Gemini have to offer to web users that the web itself doesn't? It's entirely possible to write small, simple HTML documents without javascript on the web. Indeed, one could replace Gemini entirely with a Geocities-like service that enforced the same rules, including only allowing linking within the platform.

Alongside the web, Gemini is just a worse version of the web, it isn't different enough to be its own thing, nor does it offer anything unique. Gemini only makes sense as a means of forging a separate identity from and exclusionary of the web, as you yourself said in the original comment I replied to[0]: (If they were happy with the web, they would have stayed there.)

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27491175

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