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Comment by t-sauer | Hacker News Reader

> I understand Apple's position on this one

Well then explain me this: There are absolutely no restriction on MacOS where I can give Claude free access to everything. If you are a Mac and iPhone user that essentially gives it access to the exact same data. Why is the data only protect worthy when accessed on the phone directly?

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The Mac is a pre-existing platform that is both more capable than iOS, and had an existing user base that used apps that had much greater access. Apple’s attempts to lock down the Mac have met with poor adoption.

In exchange, it also less secure, less user friendly, and less popular.

There's SIP. Claude can't install kernel extension and you can. (... and it just hit me why Apple requires specific reboot procedure to disable it)

SIP doesn’t protect user data, and I’m not sure why a Siri AI alternative would need kernel access.

Laptops are a low security environment and already massively compromised. Thats why banks make you authorise transactions by approving them on your phone when you started them on the web.

Apple has been working for a while to secure MacOS but it’s hard without breaking compatibility with old processes.

There is no one-click way to install an AI model on macOS like potentially iOS could have. I can easily imagine some grandma install on their iPhone some random AI model they saw in an AI-generated Facebook post with just one tap.

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