PacificSpecific 2026-03-01 00:15 UTC link

I've never looked at the app store rankings before. Number 3 is a app for buying shoes? That seems quite specific.

lukew3 2026-03-01 00:16 UTC link

I think their ads are better than chatgpt’s. I’ve seen them more recently encouraging people to “keep thinking” and use it to improve themselves

outside1234 2026-03-01 00:17 UTC link

That’s what happens when a bunch of us delete our OpenAI accounts, delete ChatGPT, and download Claude

whyage 2026-03-01 00:17 UTC link

Why is Dick's Sporting Goods in the top 3?

yesbut 2026-03-01 00:18 UTC link

As usual, the corporations benefiting from supporting war and subverting the rights of everyday citizens is rewarded by massive subsidies by the capitalist state.

Anthropic currently is winning the public sentiment war, but OpenAI is being established as another to-big-to-fail capitalist regime institution.

patcon 2026-03-01 00:19 UTC link

I'd just been using the free version of OpenAI for my easy tasks, so as not to waste my Claude credits on them. About time I deleted it and gave it the poor review it deserves.

A_D_E_P_T 2026-03-01 00:19 UTC link

Obvious political reasons and implications aside, a clear quality gap opened up late last year when Opus 4.5 was released vs. GPT-5. Opus was obviously and demonstrably superior to any GPT-5 tier. The release of GPT-5.2 didn't improve matters, and then Opus 4.6 widened the gap further. Right now talking to GPT-5.2 Pro is 10x slower than chatting with Opus 4.6 and the output returned is, nevertheless, generally lower quality and more "sloppy."

What I'm getting at is that this could be, in part, because Claude is genuinely better at this point in time.

outside1234 2026-03-01 00:19 UTC link

OpenAI bribed Trump: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-whole-thing-was-scam

altmanaltman 2026-03-01 00:22 UTC link

And Dick's Sporting Goods beats Google Gemini to become the 3rd app on US App Store, like what are we doing here?

wewewedxfgdf 2026-03-01 00:22 UTC link

ChatGPT and Gemini's coding capabilities are being left in the dust they'd better catch up or be irrelevant fast.

ajaimk 2026-03-01 00:24 UTC link

Considering App Store Ranking is based on recent volume, this just says that a lot of people download Claude over ChatGPT in the last 24-48 hours.

This a nothing burger

technion 2026-03-01 00:24 UTC link

I just searched the play store to download claude myself. I had to scroll a page and a half past sex bot apps to find it.

Meanwhile I have a working desktop app but this magic email link nonsense doesnt seem to work on my phone.

bossyTeacher 2026-03-01 00:27 UTC link

I wonder if this is related to the Pentagon incident. Dario's interview with the CBS has a lot of views too.

iainctduncan 2026-03-01 00:29 UTC link

The real story here is "how the hell did Dick's Sporting Goods get to #3 and how can I get me some of their magic dust?"

JKCalhoun 2026-03-01 02:07 UTC link

Yeah, dropped ChatGPT today. Downloaded the desktop version of Claude.

I won't go back.

rsync 2026-03-01 02:31 UTC link

rsync.net is (minimally) an openai customer. I've used it mostly as a curiosity but others here have used it in more professional manner.

When we created the account we shared essentially zero personal information and used a purpose-specific email, etc. No ID scans, no passports, no robust ID verification. It is a company account, after all, so it would make no sense to tie it to a particular person ...

All of this to ask:

In 2026, if I choose to boycott openAI on behalf of my firm, and perhaps sign up for Claude with the intention of using either the web interface or a terminal CLI ... what will be demanded in terms of identity and personal information ?

GeoAtreides 2026-03-01 09:19 UTC link

As Sydney Sweeney demonstrated, going MAGA is a bad marketing strategy and in the end just loses money

slashdave 2026-03-01 00:18 UTC link

Too bad we can't see the top deleted App

yesbut 2026-03-01 00:19 UTC link

they were having a sale on jock straps.

Stevvo 2026-03-01 00:20 UTC link

It has a step counter in it that gives you loyalty points. So people are walking around all day with the app running to get a free pair of shoes.

milleramp 2026-03-01 00:21 UTC link

I don't know, the one with the simple minds song was pretty good.

bob1029 2026-03-01 00:22 UTC link

yesbut 2026-03-01 00:22 UTC link

no, it is because of the public perspection of Anthropic holding a principled stance against allowing their software to pull the trigger and kill humans. ChatGPT still has the bigger brand name recognition.

rorylawless 2026-03-01 00:24 UTC link

People will always need shoes.

virgildotcodes 2026-03-01 00:26 UTC link

I just cancelled my OpenAI $200 sub yesterday because of all this, but sadly I can't agree.

Codex 5.3 Xhigh > Opus 4.6 in my work to this point.

Hoping for Opus 4.7 or whatever comes next to rectify this as I'm a bit annoyed over having to drop to a lower quality model.

verst 2026-03-01 00:26 UTC link

I am one of the people who uninstalled ChatGPT and closed their account and installed Claude in the last 24 hours. I know plenty of others who did the same. I wonder whether this trend can be sustained.

FatChauncy 2026-03-01 00:26 UTC link

I’m not sure why everybody else likes it, but for me, the Move feature gives me 3 points per day for doing what I already do (10k steps, 3mi run, or 30 active minutes). It makes the $10 rewards flow in more quickly.

nozzlegear 2026-03-01 00:26 UTC link

What's wrong with Dick's Sporting Goods?

sheeshkebab 2026-03-01 00:28 UTC link

Agree on the gap - in my own complex greenfield software dev spec test, opus 4.6 blows codex 5.3 out of the water, by wide margin, both in ui and backend.

gylterud 2026-03-01 00:31 UTC link

I did not realise there are ads for LLMs. Of course if I thought about it, I would conclude that there must be. But somehow the concept seems strange to me. What do they advertise? The LLM can do so many different things… I guess they are all “welcome! To the world of tomorrow!”

Then again, I know nothing about ads these days. Last time I had any ad exposure was twenty years ago, when I lived at home with my parents.

enraged_camel 2026-03-01 00:32 UTC link

Yep. For the past month I’ve been doing this thing where every time I need something from AI, I give Opus and Codex the same prompt. Opus is just better by a wide margin, especially on complex tasks. It uses tools quite a lot, taps into available MCP servers when it makes sense, and can think about repercussions down the line much better. Codex I feel is optimized for brevity, approaching terseness. Hard to put my finger on it but it’s never as thorough and it always misses important details.

jaustin 2026-03-01 00:32 UTC link

This is a sure sign we’re nearing the shoe event horizon (https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon and audio https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nEI19kJ5GfU )

lkbm 2026-03-01 00:34 UTC link

Here's a recent tweet with 1.7MM views pointing out that you can get gift cards just by connecting it to Apple Fitness and being active: https://x.com/edgaralandough/status/2026279637911736585

jackschultz 2026-03-01 00:42 UTC link

Massivly better and I cannot understand how many comments online say that they're comparable (other than paid actors which now fits the right wing angle that OpenAI takes because right wing paid online comments seems quite common overall).

I remember on the Opus 4.5 release data watching what it can do to my test app I wanted it to build and saying outloud to myself "oh shit" because of how much better it was at the conversation, planning, understanding, and building. Posts like this[0] say similar things, where Opus 4.5 release + Claude Code was the tipping point and the gap is widening and Anthropic has infinite more momentum and going in the better direction with useful models that aren't fully aligned with bad actors.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515696

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 2026-03-01 00:43 UTC link

Dick’s Sporting Goods is objectively more useful than Gemini.

gritspants 2026-03-01 00:44 UTC link

Well, apparently they give you some miniscule rewards points for meeting step or activity goals. I told my wife who was immediately intrigued. Pump out more apps that appeal to women.

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