Joe Biden’s legislature as president of the United States ended with controversy. During his last day to office, last Sunday, the only thing about what was discussed was about the closure of Tiktok, the result of a new law he signed and was approved with support from the Democratic and Republican parties.
Of course, the closure of Tiktok did not last even one day, and just 14 hours later, the service was again available in the United States; Donald Trump appeared as the great ‘Salvador’ of the appsomething ironic, taking into account that it was he who initiated this controversy by taking the first steps to create this law during his first period as president.
However, the story is not over. Not only Tiktok has to find a permanent solution during the 90 -day extension he has received (such as the partial sale to an American company), but Tiktok He has not yet returned to official Google and Apple apps stores. Although in Spain the Tiktok app is still available at the Play Store, users who access from the United States cannot find it.
The reason is simple: Google and Apple are complying with the law. Although Donald Trump has asked the Department of Justice not to pursue the platforms that house Tiktok during this ‘grace period’, this request has no legal weight. In other words, if the Play Store or the App Store again offer the Tiktok app, companies face possible fines of up to $ 5,000 per user that is downloaded.
The result is that users who already have the Tiktok app installed in their mobiles can continue using it without problems; But new users, or existing ones who have changed mobile, You can’t download the app. This has given rise to a somewhat strange situation, with a certain demand for mobile phones with pre -installed Tiktok, for which they are asking for up to thousands of euros on second -hand sales platforms.
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For example, on eBay it is possible to find mobile listings such as the Samsung Galaxy A54 or the iPhone 16 Pro Max with the Tiktok app already installed, so that the buyer can use it without discharging anything. Although some of these lists seem reasonable, with prices similar to those of a conventional second -hand unit, in other cases we find ridiculous prices, Like an iPhone for $ 12,500. And during the first hours, the situation was even more extravagant, as Wired has revealed, with some mobile phones listed for no less than 50,000 dollars with the “purchase now” function of EBAY.
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Of course, the fact that these mobiles are listed with a similar price It does not mean that they have sold for that amount. Anyone can put the price you want to the product you want to sell, another very different thing is that you get it at that price. However, there are indications that some purchases are true, although they have also been able to give the case of fradulent sales, in which the seller himself is the one who goes up the bid to give a feeling of false demand.
Anyway, Android users should know that buying a mobile just because it has a pre -installed app is nonsense. Unlike the iPhone, Android mobiles are open and allow the installation of apps from outside the storeand the Tiktok app is available for download on places like Apkmirror.
