Welcome to episode 96 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Damien, Abner, and Will talk through Google&#x27;s new native Gemini app for Mac and wonder why now, and why we don&#x27;t see more standalone applications from the company. They also dive into new reports surrounding Google&#x27;s portion of the foldable market — and the risk Apple holds against it — before finishing up with YouTube&#x27;s new workaround for disabling Shorts. Subscribe YouTube Podcasts Pocket Casts Spotify Apple Podcasts Overcast Sponsored by Proton Unlimited: Pixelated listeners can save 30% on an annual subscription to the company&#x27;s suite of privacy-friendly services by signing up using our link. Thanks to Proton Unlimited for sponsoring the podcast.

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Welcome to Pixelated episode 96. I'm your host, Will Sattelberg. This week, Damien Wilde and I talk about Google's new dedicated Gemini app for Mac. Why is Google looking to return to standalone apps now, and what does it mean for the company moving forward? We also discuss Google's foldable market share ahead of Apple seemingly set to enter the market later this year, before ending on YouTube's new mobile app update that finally allows you to disable shorts. Sort of. It's all coming up right after this.

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So Gemini is now on Mac as a native application, and I've literally just installed it. I don't know the difference yet between it and the website, but I'm guessing it's going to be better in a native application, or am I being a bit kind of preempting something here? So it's better in that there are some nice shortcuts to launch it on Mac, its option space,

and it gives you this floating pill, which is basically the next web UI and the next mobile UI. They crammed everything into one bar, as we talked about previously. What's interesting from zooming out is that Google is making native desktop applications

after years, decades of embracing progressive web apps. It's another broader point is that the Gemini era, this AI era, is really shaking a lot of things up about Google's conventions in terms of they are now making desktop native apps or some things. So that's a new thing.

But in terms of what I'm really finding interesting right now is that there's this, and then there's the one in Chrome. There's the full Gemini integration in Chrome, and this is full Gemini for Mac integration app. It's two of everything in classic Google fashion...

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