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Owning an iPhone shows the owner has privilege to overpay for commodity hardware, manufactured in their backyard; no one will give it up.
Huawei/Xiaomi flagships cost as much as an iPhone.
Owning an iPhone shows the owner has privilege to overpay for commodity hardware, manufactured in their backyard; no one will give it up.
>Owning an iPhone shows the owner has privilege to overpay for commodity hardware Huawei/Xiaomi flagships cost as much as an iPhone.
Seems like the best solution to the problem.
What's wild is that, they don't even have TikTok in China.
All of this is a complete waste of time.
I'm just waiting for someone to make an open-source TikTok analog that can just replace the functionality with a platform not controlled by a single party .. we still have that dream right, cryptonerds? Seems like the best solution to the problem.
And don't tell me you can do it with p2p - the entire point of tiktok is that you can load new videos by swiping your finger. If every video takes 10 seconds to begin buffering nobody will want to use your app.
Wouldn’t that be a tacit admission of the closeness, or importance, of TikTok to China… something TikTok/Bytedance is explicit trying not to do? They’re trying to up play the distance.
Wouldn’t that be a tacit admission of the closeness, or importance, of TikTok to China… something TikTok/Bytedance is explicit trying not to do? They’re trying to up play the distance.
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I suspect that's already been done a few times - but the CCP did not want a public spectacle, and the US Congress did.
6 hours of testimony that, at most, 2-3% of the country even glanced at is a spectacle in your eyes? This looks like splitting, or you're deliberately failing to understand how lawmaking works and the importance of making informed decisions at the federal level, in the long term. Congress constantly grills CEOs, the elite, and victims because it is understood that they reshape society, sometimes for the worse, not al…