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0 pointssebzim45002y ago0 comments

If you believe that a significant portion of iOS users are going to set up an Apple development account and manually reinstall TikTok every week then I have a bridge to sell you.

They will just switch to a different social network, which is equally destructive but not Chinese.

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withinboredom2y ago

I didn’t do anything special. I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.

We ripped CDs so we didn’t have to buy them. Hell, we sat by boomboxes until the right song came on the radio just to push record on the tape player.

Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.

belval2y ago

> I just installed Xcode

I think you are overestimating the tech know-how of the average person and how driven the average teenager is. TikTok a year ago was pretty unique, but now you have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. I'd bet a hard money that 99% of people will just switch to those in a heartbeat if TikTok was banned.

> Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.

What they want is cheap dopamine hit from the smartphone. It's really close to drugs, make heroin hard to get and people will go to an analog like fentanyl.

edgyquant2y ago

Most kids didn’t rip CDs though, they had a friend who was good with computers that occasionally did this for them.

jrsj2y ago

Except a MacBook costs $1000+ when TikTok clones are free

murukesh_s2y ago

I guess many of us underestimate how many teenagers own a smartphone but not a laptop/desktop computer. In older generation it was the reverse, people owned a laptop/desktop before owning a smartphone..

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hunter-gatherer2y ago

> I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done.

Like the commenter above you said; I too have a bridge to sell.

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