The Gemini app is now on Mac

Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by linzhangrun on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:44AM (#47789487)

I feel that software like this, which has the same functionality as the web version rather than leveraging the client's advantages to do things the web cannot, is not very meaningful

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Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by nomorewords on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:58AM (#47790029)

It's about app-ifying the desktop. Instead of opening a browser, then remembering that you have a bookmark and clicking it or googling the site you are looking for, the idea is to have a step less and just click something on your desktop or taskbar (like on a mobile device)

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Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by tgv on Thursday April 16, 2026 @05:20AM (#47790629)

And to circumvent browser plugins.

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Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by jbverschoor on Friday April 17, 2026 @07:53AM (#47804916)

Sure, but these apps are slower, take longer to start, and don’t handle multiple windows.

The browser experience is 10x better

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Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by solarkraft on Thursday April 16, 2026 @04:25AM (#47790217)

As long as installing web apps to desktop with real app UX sucks horribly, we will remain needing this.

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Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by chakintosh on Thursday April 16, 2026 @06:36AM (#47791138)

First thing I tried to find on that webpage is whether I can run Gemma models on the app with inference on-device. Apparently you can't.

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Re:The Gemini app is now on Mac by unsignedchar on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:11PM (#47812323)

it may not be meaningful for you (the user), but usually has benefits for the provider, from binding arbitration clauses in the ToS to deeper commercial suveillance.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-shack/#binding-arbit...

> Remember, an app is just a website skinned in the right kind of IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it

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