Federico Viticci blogged about how well suited the Mac is to AI agents, even running headless, compared to the more sandboxed iPad:

What’s different in 2026 is that these powerful agentic tools that are redefining coding and knowledge work, and which are centralizing productivity inside so-called “super apps”, aren’t coming to the iPad, but not for political or financial reasons: they’re Mac-only because only macOS is mature and open enough to support them.

Siri AI attempts to get around this limitation with an API that is only available to Apple, creating a kind of personal data silo.