new update gemini app drops mandatory google account signin requirement

Those toffs at Gemini have finally cottoned on and dished up a new way to log in. 'Til now, they've required you to tie the proverbial knot with your Google Account, as inseparable as fish and chips by a rainy seaside. This, as anybody with WiFi and a thumb for thumbing smartphones could likely tell you, was about as convenient as a chocolate teapot.

But the times, they are a-changin'. We've been handed our decree nisi from Google's suffocating omnipresence. No more exhausting affairs with third-party dramas and unsuspecting delays to your seamless navigation. Gemini has finally kicked that habit in its digital teeth, decoupling (as posh folks might say) from the exclusive liaison with Google.

Why dance to Google's tune when you could strut to your own beat, right? Going forward, rest assured that you can roguishly slip past Google's overwatch to reach the Gemini app - the tech world equivalent of a nip out for a cheeky pint when your partner thinks you're doing the hoovering.

Technology, my good fellow, is like a bucking Bronco: rather vexing to handle, but ever so satisfying once you’ve got it tamed. Here's to hoping we spend less time reining in these wild tech-beasts and more time making them work for us. We don't mind a challenge - it's what keeps the whisky in our tea. But good lord, we'd rather not have to wrestle Google just to log into an app. Read more here.