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Believe me - a lot of companies roll MDM just to be able to remotely wipe the device in case it gets lost. A lot of them do not block apps (or remove them).

Can one do this as an individual as well?

For iOS you can use Apple Configurator for profile-based M2M. For remote management you need a server-based solution and I believe there's an open-source implementation of that out there.

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Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.

They fight what they can't understand.

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Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.

Isn't this a space (short social video sharing) that has been filled by a near infinite succession of short-lived dominant offerings and that's pretty much always ready for a new, slightly different flavor of season?

The space TikTok is occupying, for which video sharing is the vehicle: personal information.

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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post #109

Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.

You mean like vine? Twitter bought it and killed it. The founder moved on to launch Byte https://www.byte.co/

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, got his phone hacked and embarrassing text messages stolen off it from a vulnerability in the video parsing library in WhatsApp in a message sent to him by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in 2018. So Amazon as a company is now very sensitive to what applications are installed on staff devices and how data on those devices can be extracted from vulnerabilities in other installed apps. This may be an outcome of that.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-phone-hacked-saud...

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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I'm more surprised Amazon (or any company, really) employees using an employer-managed device would have TikTok on them to start with, to be honest. As the follow-up tweet says: "Completely independent of the specifics in this instance: get a second device before installing an employer's config profile on your personal device"

From what I know of ppl who work there, they pay for employees phone plans (is they pay for a phone).

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Evidence always goes back to that adrian zenz fraud. I don't believe it.

Could you clarify what you don't believe? You don't believe that "Vocational Education and Training Centers" exist, or you don't believe that they are internment camps, or you do believe in them existing but don't believe in the scale of how many hundreds of thousands of people have been in them?

Re: Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

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Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.

Isn't this a space (short social video sharing) that has been filled by a near infinite succession of short-lived dominant offerings and that's pretty much always ready for a new, slightly different flavor of season?

I think they all failed for the same reason, video is expensive and the markets can't pick a winner when the game can't be won without money.

But if the Chinese government wants to prop up TikTok and pick them as the winner, they can.

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Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.

Wouldn't be surprised if Google, Facebook, or Microsoft suddenly come out with a competing app. Didn't google have one that they shut down recently?

Do those three ever truly come out with something new, or do they just buy up existing tech?

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Yeah, not to defend Tik-Tok, China, or spyware in general, but it's ironic that nobody has a problem with Google, Facebook, and other American companies tracking everything people do, but when a Chinese company starts doing it, it's suddenly a big problem. But then again, TikTok probably doesn't answer their subpoenas...

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Please dispense with the naïveté. Serving ads is the ostensible commercial goal of Google and Facebook. That's not their only duty.
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