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Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card by amluto on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:11AM (#45967237)
Google’s productization is still rather poor. If I want to use OpenAI’s models, I go to their website, look up the price and pay it. For Google’s, I need to figure out whether I want AI Studio or Google Cloud Code Assist or AI Ultra, etc, and if this is for commercial use where I need to prevent Google from training on my data, figuring out which options work is extra complicated.

As of a couple weeks ago (the last time I checked) if you are signed in to multiple Google accounts and you cannot accept the non-commercial terms for one of them for AI Studio, the site is horribly broken (the text showing which account they’re asking you to agree to the terms for is blurred, and you can’t switch accounts without agreeing first).

In Google’s very slight defense, Anthropic hasn’t even tried to make a proper sign in system.

Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card by PrairieFire on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:23AM (#45967447)
Not to mention no macOS app. This is probably unimportant to many in the hn audience, but more broadly it matters for your average knowledge worker.
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card by perardi on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:42AM (#45968634)
And a REALLY good macOS app.

Like, kind of unreasonably good. You’d expect some perfunctory Electronic app that just barely wraps the website. But no, you get something that feels incredibly polished…more so than a lot of recent apps from Apple…and has powerful integrations into other apps, including text editors and terminals.

Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card by aoeusnth1 on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:54AM (#45968830)
Which app are you referring to?
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card by oppegard on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @12:55PM (#45969698)
The ChatGPT app for Mac is native and very good.
Re:Gemini 3 Pro Model Card by kyle_grove on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @09:33PM (#45975211)
Anthropic sign-on is surprisingly bad.