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If you believe that a significant portion of iOS users are going to set up an Apple development account and manually reinstall TikTok every week then I have a b

If you believe that a significant portion of iOS users are going to set up an Apple development account and manually reinstall TikTok every week then I have a bridge to sell you. They will just switch to a different social network, which is equally destructive but not Chinese.

withinboredom 4y ago
I didn’t do anything special. I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done. We ripped CDs so we didn’t have to buy them. Hell, we sat by boomboxes until the right song came on the radio just to push record on the tape player. Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.
- belval 4y ago
  > I just installed Xcode I think you are overestimating the tech know-how of the average person and how driven the average teenager is. TikTok a year ago was pretty unique, but now you have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. I'd bet a hard money that 99% of people will just switch to those in a heartbeat if TikTok was banned. > Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge. What they want is cheap dopamine hit from the smartphone. It's really close to drugs, make heroin hard to get and people will go to an analog like fentanyl.
- jrsj 4y ago
  Except a MacBook costs $1000+ when TikTok clones are free
  - murukesh_s 4y ago
    I guess many of us underestimate how many teenagers own a smartphone but not a laptop/desktop computer. In older generation it was the reverse, people owned a laptop/desktop before owning a smartphone..
    - Talanes 4y ago
      Even if they have a computer, it's not necessarily going to be an Apple computer. Unless you're a developer, interoperability between your mobile hardware and your desktop hardware is barely a concern.
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- edgyquant 4y ago
  Most kids didn’t rip CDs though, they had a friend who was good with computers that occasionally did this for them.
- hunter-gatherer 4y ago
  > I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done. Like the commenter above you said; I too have a bridge to sell.

withinboredom 4y ago

I didn’t do anything special. I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done. We ripped CDs so we didn’t have to buy them. Hell, we sat by boomboxes until the right song came on the radio just to push record on the tape player. Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge.

belval 4y ago
> I just installed Xcode I think you are overestimating the tech know-how of the average person and how driven the average teenager is. TikTok a year ago was pretty unique, but now you have YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels. I'd bet a hard money that 99% of people will just switch to those in a heartbeat if TikTok was banned. > Kids will do whatever it takes to get what they want. I’d buy that bridge. What they want is cheap dopamine hit from the smartphone. It's really close to drugs, make heroin hard to get and people will go to an analog like fentanyl.
jrsj 4y ago
Except a MacBook costs $1000+ when TikTok clones are free
- murukesh_s 4y ago
  I guess many of us underestimate how many teenagers own a smartphone but not a laptop/desktop computer. In older generation it was the reverse, people owned a laptop/desktop before owning a smartphone..
  - Talanes 4y ago
    Even if they have a computer, it's not necessarily going to be an Apple computer. Unless you're a developer, interoperability between your mobile hardware and your desktop hardware is barely a concern.
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edgyquant 4y ago
Most kids didn’t rip CDs though, they had a friend who was good with computers that occasionally did this for them.
hunter-gatherer 4y ago
> I just installed Xcode, and bam. Done. Like the commenter above you said; I too have a bridge to sell.