Comment by hahn-kev
5 hours ago
It's crazy to me that there's no screenshots on the blog post. And when you click through to download it there's a bunch of aspirational pictures, but only one short clip showing what it actually looks like. Why? Is it too hard to show a screenshot?
It is just an 11.8 MB poor alternative to the browser, it is offering keyboard shortcuts and the ability to read your screen, you still need internet connection and manually authorizing access.
> you still need internet connection
Well, yes? Did you expect a local model?
yeah, only preview we have is on their socials : https://x.com/GeminiApp/status/2098080062570721619
Marketing said "let's make it evergreen" since they can't count on the Product and Legal team keeping it consistent for the next few months or so.
To me as an outsider, it seems that anything Google employees do is for internal promotion; as such, no screenshots are needed, the fact that something new had been delivered is enough.
As the old saying at MSFT goes, “Shipping is a feature”.
Maybe the marketing-slop-AI is forbidden from using the "execute and screenshot" skill?
Because app design can change, if you are showing it in the website, everytime app design changes you need to update website screenshots as well to stay consistent
I'm sure given all of their devs at google, they can task someone with taking screenshots.
Or can gemini generate a script to automatically update the screenshots when updated?
question would be, is it necessary to introduce another point of failure?
of course it is possible, but is this the right time to engineer that solution and make automated screenshot uploads, or connect it to gemini to upload screenshots from time to time?