Apple Inc. and Oracle Corp. have reacted differently to President Donald Trump's pledge that the US government won't enforce a national security law that raised potential penalties for US partners of the popular video app TikTok.
Phones are going for thousands of dollars on online storefronts after Apple and Google took down ByteDance platforms.
While President Trump has signed an executive order providing TikTok an extra 75 days in the US, the company has not returned the app to the Apple and Google app stores. As a result, some are selling their phones that already have the app downloaded.
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The Trump administration is denying it, but Trump previously said he'd like to see the software company take it over.
A looming ban on TikTok set to take effect on Sunday presents a multibillion-dollar headache for app store operators Apple and Google.
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The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.
The plan to save TikTok involves software company Oracle and a group of outside investors effectively taking control of the app's global operations, two sources with
Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.
Some fast-acting entrepreneurs are selling phones with TikTok preloaded on devices for thousands of dollars online, after the social media app was momentarily unavailable in the U.S.