Really hoping this will not strip off messages as it happens in iOS apps with long conversations over days.<p>Have been seeing that happen consistently where older chats have some messages missing in between
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).
Meanwhile, I still can't use Gemini as my Android Auto assistant.
It is widely rolled out now and not just in the US.
I just got it last week. Still a few quirks, but positive so far.
Do you have an option to not use it? Google forcefully updated my TV and the normal assistant is gone now
First thing I do after I purchase any smart TV - turn off network access, disable auto-updates (mine is a Sony). So, this way 1) it can collect whatever it wants but it can't phone back home and 2) I don't wake up one day and find myself on a learning curve I didn't sign up for (happened to me once, they completely re-did the UI, for worse!)
It seems to forget about what I do and don't have access to (in terms of apps). I've had to remind it that I have Spotify and YT music more than once.<p>Other than that agreed going okay so far.
Can you use it as your CarPlay assistant?
This.<p>Android feels like more of a liability than an asset to Google these days.
Man, I’ve spent so many years now without google, I want to try it because I want to try different agents but I don’t really want to setup google on my MacBook.<p>Does this have console like Claude and codex?<p>---<p>I was able to install and use Gemini on macOS fine authentication worked. I had some issues authenticating with the cli app, some certificate issues.<p>Once I got past the certificate issues, now it will not let me use the cli code assist without verifying that I am 18+ but I can use the UI app just fine without the verification.<p>To verify, seems to require submitting a government issued ID or credit card.<p>No thanks. This kind of stuff is why I dropped google long ago.
The best by far IMO. gemini-cli
At least as of about 6 weeks ago, Gemini cli was a buggy mess. I ended up hitting bugs every 30-60 minutes that required completely resetting (clearing the cache, logging out and in) and then if I resumed an old chat the bug was back.<p>I saw a joke on Reddit: Anthropic doesn't let you use claude with 3rd party harnesses. Google doesn't even let you use Gemini with their <i>own</i> harness.
Out of curiosity, why do you like gemini-cli better than claude or codex? And do you have any comparisons to opencode or pi?<p>Personally I've really liked OpenCode's TUI, but maybe on a superficial level of "this looks good and feels ergonomic to me".<p>Gemini cli felt clunky for me when I tried a while ago, but maybe it's better now? I do like how it's open source and I'm wondering if it can be made as model agnostic as OpenCode.
Yeah I've been google search free for few years now, but gemini feels like google's renaissance.<p>I used gemini for past few months as using Safari's add to dock feature. Been waiting for gemini app tho as web version is just so buggy.
Heard it's written in Swift for this native adaptation. That's a good sign.
Any way to run this on Gemma 4 only? If there was a “local” mode, I would seriously think about installing this.
Out of curiosity, why not just try it with one of the many local managers like LM Studio or Ollama or oMLX, etc?<p>The Gemini app is kind of terrible (apart from the models) but Gemma 4 runs great locally already.
Seems like the most basic thing ever.<p>Can’t even use the new Gemma on device model… no model selection besides fast/normal/thinking.<p>Also requires Google login
The amount of products and updates shipping from the AI-invigorated Google is mind-boggling.<p>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?
Tried antigravity and cli a few times. I'm unable to handle that prodigious toddler. Are you guys able to make use of it?
Been using it for work and personal daily since release. First few weeks were rough but it's probably the best AI code editor out right now. But that's largely due to the models just be superior
CLI is great, probably 90% as good as CC.
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Really? Right now both Claude Code and Codex seem substantially more capable than Gemini CLI to me.
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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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.<p>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.
still on the latest pixel phone - gemini can't read basic things.
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How about making something we actually want, like a GMail app for mac.
Excellent. Now the Project Manager of this app gets a promotion at Google, the team gets disbanded to other projects and this app gets abandoned. Congratulations!
Could we start the count down clock on when Google will deprecate this app ?
Apple Silicon only.
Thanks for nothing.
> The Gemini app is now available as a native macOS experience<p>Ok Google, this is well-earned. This is enough to make me try Gemini over Claude.<p>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.
<i>I'm so fed up with _fucking_ self-updating Electron apps.</i><p>Logging into Discord once a day and it opens and closes itself 3 times while that stupid logo spins and says it's fetching 1 out of 8 updates. What the hell. I actually hate Discord, I would migrate in a heartbeat if I didn't think it'd kill my WoW guild.