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Well there already is a competitor - TikTok. As it stands, if I only care about the TikTok/Reels functionality, I'm going with TikTok. It doesn't come with all
by Miner49er 6y ago
Well there already is a competitor - TikTok.
As it stands, if I only care about the TikTok/Reels functionality, I'm going with TikTok. It doesn't come with all the extra bloat.
I guess we'll see what happens with the potential Trump ban and Microsoft acquisition though.
- beenBoutIT 6y agoIf Microsoft acquires TikTok how would they go about vetting all of the code to remove any potentially malicious components?
- Miner49er 6y agoWhat malicious components? And how do you define malicious? Every social media contains malicious components, do you mean something different? I don't think TikTok is anymore malicious then Instagram.
- beenBoutIT 6y agoMalicious as in doing things outside the scope of what Microsoft wants done.
- nindalf 6y agoThey will grep for and comment out the code that goes like “maliciouslyUploadSecretInfo.*()“ Sorry, but that was a ridiculous question.
- beenBoutIT 6y agoAcquiring an app from a Chinese company and slapping the Microsoft branding on it without doing some sort of vetting would be absurd.
- freehunter 6y agoWhat’s absurd is thinking Microsoft doesn’t have anyone who can read source code.
- StavrosK 6y agoHow is it different from acquiring a US app?
- thiagoharry 6y agoAccording with the new cold war narrative, in this case we have an very evil code that spy people all the time. Forgetting that last time I checked, companies proven by leaked documents to really spy and pass information to the government was Microsoft, Instagram, Facebook and Google.
- ethbro 6y ago> If Microsoft acquires TikTok how would they go about vetting all of the code to remove any malicious components? Rename it "Skype for Teens". Make no changes to the codebase.
- beenBoutIT 6y agoThat's more like it, but seriously there aren't a lot of articles written about app acquisition and the process of going through and debugging a massive codebase. If they buy it, no one from Microsoft will ever write a blog talking about how the code was a mess and how their team improved it.
- treis 6y agoThey're not. "Malicious" in this case means gathering user data and MS wants that data. They're just going to point the information flow to their servers.
- snypher 6y agoMy take on this is that a Chinese company can't take a National Security Letter, and Microsoft already has a Room 641A.
- newen 6y agoTikTok is "malicious" only because a Chinese company partially owns it. That's literally it and it's just like any other social media company otherwise.
- blisseyGo 6y agoAnyone else think Facebook launching this might stop Microsoft from buying TikTok now? Depending upon how much money they need, I think Microsoft not having any past social media presence might scare them taking on Facebook as a competitor.