January 27, 2025
Some have purchased the coveted telephones for tens of hundreds, however purchasers ought to notice that getting them might nonetheless lead to no TikTok.
Whereas TikTok stays banned on app shops regardless of its resurgence on-line, eBay sellers have capitalized on the authorized dispute by promoting telephones with the app nonetheless put in.
The mark-ups come amid President Trump signing an government order for an 75-day extension for TikTok to promote to an American-based firm. Forward of this presidential intervention, the app went darkish for over 10 hours for its American customers. It left 140 million U.S. customers impacted by the shut down.
Nevertheless, whereas account-holders are in a position to scroll by way of movies once more, those that deleted or by no means downloaded the app are caught with out it in the interim. Furthermore, Apple’s App Retailer and the Google Play retailer have but to find out when TikTok will turn out to be out there once more. The one different lies in shopping for a cellphone with the app already put in.
Presently, “TikTok telephones” have greater than 27,000 listings on the web market, in response to CNN. Nevertheless, the now-coveted gadgets is not going to come low cost, particularly given the instances.
Some telephones have sticker costs as excessive as $50,000 to over $1 million. Nevertheless, purchasers ought to notice that getting the cellphone might nonetheless lead to no TikTok. The cellphone house owners signed out of iCloud or Google as an alternative of the standard manufacturing facility reset to maintain the app. Regardless of this, plugging one’s current cloud backup might take TikTok off the cellphone anyway.
Due to this fact, past paying an exorbitant worth for a typical Android or iPhone, one should take additional measures to make sure they’ll preserve the app they spent the additional money for. Nevertheless, the information outlet solely noticed offered objects that went for $21,000, leaving the higher-priced devices nonetheless up for buy. These nonetheless vying for the objects can at all times make the most of eBay’s supply choice to put their very own worth.
It stays unclear how lengthy the craze will proceed as TikTok’s future within the U.S. unfolds. Within the meantime, ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, has begun negotiations with U.S.-based firm Oracle to strike a deal forward of the deadline, per NPR.
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