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Two chart categories confirm the same fragmentation story

Apple's own download chart and the sweep's industry data agree: resale apps and now three separate microdrama apps sit together at the top of the free chart, both readings pointing at the same splintering of attention into ever-narrower formats.

Both layers, in the same key.

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