This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.
If you still have TikTok installed on your phone, you might be able to make a few thousand dollars by listing it on eBay.
TikTok went dark, and pulled its products from app stores in the United States. The following day, citing assurances from incoming-President Trump, TikTok returned service to American users, but its apps are still missing from App Stores—even after Trump signed an executive order delaying enforcing the law that bans TikTok.
Updated January 19th as service was being restored.
Whether TikTok can be downloaded on a new phone depends on your device, as it’s currently removed from app stores. Details.
Some eBay sellers are hoping to get $10,000 or more for a smartphone with TikTok preinstalled, but the app's future is far from certain.
While the TikTok ban has been suspended for 75 days, thanks to President Trump, the app is still not available in the Google Play Store, nor the Apple App
An investment group with MrBeast as its main face plans to offer more than $20 billion to buy TikTok in the US.
The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or the iPhone App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.
When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?
Phones and Android phones with TikTok preinstalled on them are being listed for ridiculous prices on the online marketplace eBay.
The impending TikTok ban has resulted in opportunistic behaviors where people on eBay are selling smartphones with the app preinstalled.
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