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Apart from all the political discussions, I have no idea how the buyer is supposed to buy out just some regional markets. Would development still be done by th
by the_duke 6y ago
Apart from all the political discussions, I have no idea how the buyer is supposed to buy out just some regional markets.
Would development still be done by the original company, and the new owner just operates regional data centers? But without inter-connectivity? Without being able to influence development, or offer access to the developers for debugging and ops? Seems exceedingly unlikely.
Otherwise, do they get a code dump of a huge, complex code base, and are supposed to continue development on their own? With the original TikTok still operating in other parts of the world, and slowly diverging? I can't see that happening either.
Would they buy the brand name too, and the rest of the world would start using a different name?
That all seems pointless. The only thing that makes sense to me is taking over globally.
- ferros 6y agoYes all of this, how does a regional split work?
- weego 6y agoAffiliate revshare? Doesn't really fit but the idea is baffling to me anyway
- CM30 6y agoThat's a good point. It's going to be a lot more complex to sell just TikTok's US operations than the whoe company, for all the reasons mentioned. Still, I guess there is a positive to all this complexity. It's a perfect test case for what splitting up Google/Facebook/Apple/Microsoft/whatever would be like, assuming an antitrust cause goes ahead. You'd likely have many of the same issues there, so this could be a chance to see how things might play out in such a situation...
- vasco 6y agoThey're literally different apps with different names, user bases that don't interact with each other.
- kube-system 6y agoYes, in China, it's a different app, called Douyin. (This is probably why the icon looks like a letter 'd'.) ByteDance says they're operationally separate from TikTok as of 2019. https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/%E6%8A%96%E9%9F%B3%E7%9F%AD%E8%A7%86%E9%A2%91/id1142110895?l=zh&ls=1 https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/%E6%8A%96%E9%9F%B3%E7%9F%AD%E8... https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/27/tiktok-moves-to-separate-app-from-chinese-operations-amid-us-probe.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/27/tiktok-moves-to-separate-app...
- the_duke 6y agoI wasn't talking about China. All the leaks so far have only mentioned buying out the US / NA (or at most all English speaking) markets, not all of TikTok.
- Firebrand 6y agoReliance Jio is rumored to be purchasing TikTok’s operations in India as well. Seems even more complicated given Facebook and Google’s investments.