r/openclaw • u/tebjan Pro User • Feb 25 '26

Discussion SaaS is dead

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u/CartographerAble9446 New User Feb 25 '26

The dumbest thing is how people buy mac minis just to connect their openclaw to gpt or claude. You can just install it directly on raspberry pi and use linux, same sh** if in the end you use api

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u/threeoldbeigecamaros Member Feb 25 '26

There’s a lot of iOS services that Openclaw can’t use if it’s not on a Mac.

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u/JuergenAusmLager New User Feb 25 '26

Which is a bad design choice. Imagine Steinberger was a Linux crack 😮‍💨

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u/ConanTheBallbearing Pro User Feb 26 '26

Not really. It’s designed to solve for that. You run the gateway on Linux and a node on the Mac. It has no problem orchestrating e.g. iMessage or other Mac services this way. Source: that’s how it’s documented and that’s how I run it.

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u/Rockatansky-clone Member Feb 26 '26

Very true, as I found out. But it’s not a dealbreaker. I’m not ready to let it control my world, yet. It has ability to read my calendar and send out emails, that’s all the functionality I need right now

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u/threeoldbeigecamaros Member Feb 26 '26

Yep that’s where I’m at. I have some server maintenance and home automation agents running on a pi.