Claude is the Number 2 Free App in Apple’s App Store Now

In your lifetime, you’ve undoubtedly seen backlash, cancellations, and the Streisand effect. You’ve seen social media sites go bad, and alternatives come up and go bad themselves. You’ve seen Chick Fil-A protested for being too homophobic and later for not enough homophobia. You heard the members of the Dixie Chicks meeting George W. Seen Bush apologizing and then not apologizing and then rebranding and then rebranding again. You may have seen George H.W. Bush say in a campaign speech “We need more families like The Waltons than The Simpsons” only to lose, and have seen The Simpsons become so successful that it eventually became as unique as The Waltons.

And now they’re canceling the cloud. Is it going to make the cloud more powerful? Some of the early indicators suggest this may be the case.

You probably know by now that the President intends to use all the tools at his disposal to take down the AI ​​company Anthropic. And you may know that he said in a Truth Social post, “The leftist nut Jobs at Anthropic has made a disastrous mistake in trying to consolidate the War Department and force them to follow their terms of service instead of our Constitution.”

Well, CNBC noted on Friday evening that the cloud app has risen to No. 2 on Apple’s top US free apps chart — almost immediately after the Trump administration gave the company a massive amount of free marketing by condemning it, helped broker a deal between Anthropic’s main rival, OpenAI, and the Pentagon, and then started a big new war.

I don’t know if the increased use of the cloud is meant to be a form of protest, but if you’re trying out the cloud as a little protest against war, might I suggest asking the cloud the following question: “Hey Cloud, will changing the AI ​​chatbot I use help end the war?” I hope this helps.