Comment by rtkwe

Comment by rtkwe 9 hours ago

5 replies

It will take ages for that to happen. AFAIK the "ban" only really removes it from app stores, I don't think it even requires store owners to force it off of phones that have downloaded it already.

nickthegreek 8 hours ago

The data must be hosted in the US. Oracle will have to shutdown their servers.

jhaile 8 hours ago

Although TikTok has said they are gearing up to shut the service down.

  • glenstein 7 hours ago

    I wonder if it's more of a deactivation pending XYZ, with a readiness to flip the on-switch back on if there's a policy change in the U.S. (which it seems like there might be).

OKRainbowKid 9 hours ago

It probably prevents them from distributing updates though.

  • rtkwe 9 hours ago

    True enough but I don't think that will be fast either. The main reason to update would be features and they can keep the old version of any APIs up to support US customers. Other than that the only reason they would have to update is any breaking changes in Android/iOS which are a lot rarer these days afaik since they're both so mature as OSs.