Comment by Telemakhos
23 days ago
Apple's niche product, consisting of like 1-4% of computer sales compared to its dominant MacBook line, is now flying off the shelf as a highly desired product, because of a piece of software that Apple didn't spend a dime developing. This sounds like a major win for Apple.
The OS maker does not have to make all the killer software. In fact, Apple's pretty much the only game in town that's making hardware and software both.
Really doubt it has a significant impact on mac mini sales…
And being fair ClawBot is a complete meme/fad at this point rather than an actual product. Using it for anything serious is pretty much the equivalent of throwing your credit cards, ids and sticky notes with passwords and waiting to see what happens…
I do see the appeal and potential case of the general concept of course. The product itself (and the author has admitted it themselves) is literally is a garbage pile..
> Using it for anything serious
One man's trash is another man's serious
What are you referring to?
Probably the Mac Mini. A few OpenClaw users are buying the agent a dedicated device so that it can integrate with their Apple account.
For example: https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2017686846910959668.
Why would it need more than 1? Couldn't they do this with any Mac with an Apple account?
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The entire point of the article is about the Mac mini sales flying through the roof because of this.
Mac-Minis
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So you might be discriminated against by some ignorant teenagers? Probably for the best.
who's "afraid" of green bubbles? it's like saying a toyota corolla driver is afraid of the ford pinto
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People are buying mac minis so their openclaw instances can date?
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If someone is shallow enough to write you off for that, is that someone you want as your partner?
You're saying I might have trouble getting a date if I don't have a Mac mini?
Imo using android is a great way to filter out extremely boring and vapid individuals from my dating pool.
Do you want to know how I can tell you didn't read the article?
Do you want to know how I can tell that you did not read the hacker news guidelines.