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I'm honestly starting to ponder more fundamental questions here. The behavior of MS and ByteDance is not right currently. Your idea that MS gets a stronger pos
by bilbo0s 6y ago
I'm honestly starting to ponder more fundamental questions here. The behavior of MS and ByteDance is not right currently.
Your idea that MS gets a stronger position is a bit orthogonal to what may be the real hold up. Insofar as your idea assumes both that ByteDance cares, and that MS wants Tik Tok, then your idea is sound.
But I'm no longer certain either is true. Is ByteDance a business? Or an out of date intelligence front that their people are simply winding down? Does MS want Tik Tok? Or has Trump decided that's the best outcome for him, and pressured MS to buy Tik Tok?
Is it time to consider the very real possibility that MS doesn't even want Tik Tok? And never really did?
Also, MS is being a little naive here as well. We are in uncharted territory, but did they think they would get away with tap dancing for a few months to pacify Trump and then coming back and saying, "Sorry we can't get it done"?
- jrochkind1 6y agoI thought I had seen reports MS has been negotiating with ByteDance for purchase of TikTok for months? TikTok has a huge amount of use, right, it is hugely popular? Microsoft in general is known to be trying to get into "social" more, for obvious reasons. You can make a conspiracy story about anything, but I think the occam's razor answer is that, yes, Microsoft actually wants TikTok. Doesn't it appear to be a very valuable property matching MS's known acquisition strategies? Why wouldn't they want it, there's nothing odd about them wanting it that needs some other mystery explanation, is there?