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Family Feud: Mac-assed Mac App Edition
Jim Nielsen · 2026-07-09 · via Jim Nielsen’s Blog

“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:

Screenshot of the Family Fued leaderboard with three spots on the board. The top spot is revealed as “Apple”.

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:

Screenshot of the Family Fued leaderboard with three spots on the board. The top spot is revealed as “Apple” but a big giant “X” overlays the board indicating an incorrect answer.

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!”

Screenshot of the Family Fued leaderboard with three spots on the board. The top spot is revealed as “Apple” but two giant “X” markers overlay the board indicating an incorrect answer.

Maybe not.

Buzz!

“Google!”

Screenshot of the Family Fued leaderboard with three spots on the board. The top spot is revealed as “Apple” but three giant “X” markers overlay the board indicating an incorrect answer.

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”.

A line chart. On the y-axis is the label “Mac-assed Mac app-ness” and on the x-axis is the label “Company size & revenue”. The line on the chart is trending down.

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.