If you’re heavily invested in Apple apps (iMessage/Calendar/Reminders/Notes), you need a Mac to give the agent tools to interact with these apps. I think that combined with the form factor, price, and power consumption, makes it an ideal candidate.

If you’re heavily invested in Windows, then you’d probably go for a small x86 PC.

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oidar 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Some of those connectors are only available on the mac and some only on the iPhone. Like notes is available on the mac, but not on the phone. Vice versa for reminders.

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keyle 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you imagine giving an AI access to your messages, notes and calendar though?

I use agentic coding, this is next level madness.

	▲	mangoman 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I guess what’s wrong with it? Let’s say it has read only access, new messages and calendar invites need approval. I’m not sure I understand the harm? I suppose data exfiltration, but like you could start with an allowlist approach. So the first few uses and reads take a while with allowing the ai to read stuff , but it doesn’t seem that crazy given it’s what we basically do with ai coding tools?
	▲	blacktulip 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I think (most of) them register new accounts for the agent.