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I was going to say that I was surprised that enough "normal" users had heard about the Pentagon news story that it would make a difference. Then I remembered t
by crazygringo 8mo ago
I was going to say that I was surprised that enough "normal" users had heard about the Pentagon news story that it would make a difference.
Then I remembered that the app store rankings [1] seem to be based on activity from just the past day or so.
And so a lot of "plugged-in" users switching to Claude all at once then would be enough to briefly send Claude to #1, since the migration would be sizeable in comparison to the normal daily download baseline.
But we can also expect that this would probably be just a blip for a couple of days, as it's unlikely to make much difference in the baseline ratio for the general population.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts
- Sebguer 8mo agoI don't think you realize how mainstream the story has been. My grandfather, who is as non-tech as humanly possible, brought it up to me.
- j_bum 8mo agoAgreed. My wife acts as my North Star for knowing whether tech news is in the mainstream. She doesn’t care about tech. She said yesterday and Friday her instagram was full of people deleting ChatGPT and downloading/paying for Claude. It’s definitely beyond the tech bubble.
- pjc50 8mo agoThis does remind me of the brief period after the TikTok annexation where people moved to Xiaohongshu (RedNote) .. for about three days.
- Sebguer 8mo agoIt's much, much closer to the X -> Bluesky, I expect.
- techjamie 8mo agoMy girlfriend migrated to Claude from Gemini and she's not techie at all. She says she likes the answers Claude gives a lot more in general because Gemini is too dramatic. Claude is definitely beyond the tech sphere.