Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition

“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?”

Buzz!

“Apple!”

Survey says:

Yes! Apple at the number one spot.

Makes sense. Who better to make the very definition of a great Mac app than the people who make the Mac? No brainer, I suppose.

Granted, they’ve had some misses, but nobody bats 1000.

Ok, let’s keep going.

“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?”

Buzz!

“Anthropic!”

Survey says:

Wow, that’s odd huh? You’d think Anthropic would be right there at number two. Not only do they have billions of dollars, but they also develop, maintain, and control the super intelligence we’ll all soon be subservient too, right?

Surely if anyone (besides Apple) is well positioned to make a world-class Mac app, it would have to be Anthropic — right?

And yet, here we are with Claude Desktop as an Electron app.

Ok, let’s keep going.

“We asked 100 people: What are the top three companies on earth best positioned to make a world-class Mac-assed Mac app?”

Buzz!

“Adobe!”

Maybe not.

Buzz!

“Google!”

Not so much.

I’m sorry, but that’s three strikes.

Apparently it’s a mistake to assume that a big company with piles of cash is well poised to make a great Mac app — even if they are enabled by hyper-super-intelligence.

“Well who cares? It just goes to show you don’t have to make a good Mac app to be obscenely successful in terms of revenue!”

Well, maybe that’s true.

Actually, come to think of it, it kinda does seem like the bigger you get and the more money you make, the more likely it is you’re making an Electron app.

There seems to be a correlation between “Mac-assed Mac app-edness” and “Company size/revenue”.

Why is that?

I’ll leave that as an exercise for the reader (though my mind is leaning towards something to do with care).

Thank you for playing reading this game of family feud.