Gemini Pro is incredible

By TheBlindGuy07, 10 November, 2025

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So I just wanted to share this here.
I just redeemed the 1-year free student discount for Gemini. I’ve got 2 TB of storage shared across all Google services and have been tinkering with the Gemini integration in Gmail and Drive.
Oh my gosh, Apple, you really screwed this up. You could’ve just marketed Macs — already super popular with Apple Silicon — to handle all this privately on-device: cross-referencing iCloud Drive files, Mail, Messages, and everything else. Macs already had the hardware, at least better hardware than iphones, to do this stuff locally.
Google’s doing it all online at the cost of privacy. It can go back into Drive files and emails, and it actually pointed out something really important I needed to reply to that I wouldn’t have noticed otherwise, so there is a real usefulness here.
All my important data lives in iCloud Drive, and iCloud Mail is my main inbox for anything important - banks, government stuff, etc.
Honestly, I’d have already moved everything to Google if it wasn’t for that one-year free student deal.
But now you'll be using gemini for siri so... The integration better works.

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By Brian on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 03:43

Now you just need a shiny new ChromeBook and a Pixel Pro, and you will be golden. 😇

By TheBlindGuy07 on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 05:41

I'll wait for this new kid with android kernel and a chrome os like flavor of android desktop.
Pixel... Yeah but I've heard horrible stories of weird software battery issues and just other stuff that is so, google.

By Brian on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 16:30

I've read a lot of rumors about those devices as well. However, I have friends who are married, whom have a Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 8 Pro respectively, and they seem to love their devices. Granted, they are both cited and do not need talkback or any other TTS, Although, she, does use magnification, while, he, does not need to. 🤷🏻‍♂️

By MarkSarch on Monday, November 10, 2025 - 17:28

If google Gemini Pro has impressed you, imagine what Google Gemini could do on a Google Pixel!
everything you hear is just rumors,
I can assure you that there's no phone as smart as the Google Pixel!
The iPhone is just a dumb phone compare to the Pixel.

By Kelly on Tuesday, November 11, 2025 - 00:07

Hi. What are the main benefits of upgrading to Pro? Are Drive and Gmail integrations specific to Pro? What about the live video features? I could look this up, and I will as soon as I finish this paragraph, but I usually just get marketing nonsense when I try researching AI assistants, so I'd love a user's perspective.