Comment by rsanek

Comment by rsanek 2 months ago

how would this actually work? iOS is so dominant among US teens it's crazy, and the ability to sideload on that platform is nonexistent even to very technically savvy users.

paxys 2 months ago

If the holding power of TikTok is strong enough (which it just might be) then you might actually see teens start to switch to Android.

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iforgot22 2 months ago

I wonder how many Android users would actually sideload it. Same happened with Fortnite for a few years, and idk how many people did that.

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- sudosysgen 2 months ago
  
  Fortnite never had even a hundredth of the smartphone screentime as Tiktok. I honestly think a lot (at least 5 million) Android users will sideload it once it comes to that.
  
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  iforgot22 2 months ago
  
  Yeah but what % of them. Cause if it's only 1%, and 99% are going to some other app...
  
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- herbst 2 months ago
  
  Or DJI. Side loading is so easy, we usually just call it "installing an app" there is no hacking or magic around that, works just like a .exe with some extra protections.
  
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whimsicalism 2 months ago

you won’t

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- sudosysgen 2 months ago
  
  I don't think it would be as unlikely as you'd think. It's not impossible for a significant amount of people to get a cheap Android for these apps, after all iPhones are a result of iMessage.
  
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  ketzo 2 months ago
  
  “Large portions of US teens will get second phones for one specific social media app” is an absolutely wild thing to predict seriously
  
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  kube-system 2 months ago
  
  I think it's more likely that people would simply use the browser
  
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greenavocado 2 months ago

I got popcorn ready to see how the masses of iOS users will react to the TikTok ban

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