Wiggling the mouse is what people do involuntarily when the computer isn’t working right. They are setting themselves up for Gemini to be the uninvited Clippy, except this will send everything you are working on to Google to harvest data from.

Oh my goodness, the use cases are so… badly conceived:

> If a friend sends you a picture on your phone and you need to email it from your laptop, the file is just there — no need to email it to yourself.

So are there really people who will email a photo to themselves from their phone to… send the photo in an email?

Interesting to note that there is no mention of processor or operating system in that post. I’m guessing that it’s Android in a laptop form factor which I suppose might be something that some people would want, but I’m not one of them.

Looks like their Reddit post has a formatting error?

   ...as computing shifts from operating systems [to intelligence systems](TKTK)...

edit: hah, maybe someone from Google saw my comment. This has now been fixed and TKTK replaced with https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb83gy/making_and...

Posting an official announcement of an AI-powered laptop on Reddit were the users there tend to have a hard Anti-AI stance is certainly something.

AI mouse pointer is definitely not something I wanted to think about today. A recent HN post implored vibe coders not to modify the mouse pointer and now we get this from Google.

Well, that AI mouse pointer idea is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in quite awhile. Hard pass, do not want, do not trust anyone involved.

> It's really easy to access your phone’s files right from your Googlebook's file browser.

Yeah but what about Windows Explorer? They've been passively blocking SMB access forever at this point (by disallowing ports below 1024).

I would not be surprised if Googlebook's file browser goes via the cloud.