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It does when you’re talking about the number of recent App Store downloads.

Which I was.

It's still a factual statement to say it has a higher ranking and it's irrelevant to mention the 20 years thing. Someone said the car is the most popular vehicle in the last year and someone pipes up to say the horse and carriage has been around for three thousand years! Wow!

You’re either being intentionally obtuse or unintentionally missing the point.

News outlets giddily claiming some newly launched FPS game is going to replace Counter-Strike because it had more downloads in a given week in 2024 would be a far more apt analogy and equally as absurd.

And yet, something having more downloads than the Old Thing, is one of the first signs. No need to fuss over it and get defensive.

thanks you for this. I for one find your analorgy both highly apt and convincing!

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