Nearly a week after it was removed, the TikTok app is still missing from Apple and Google’s app stores. Because these app stores are the primary way many people get software, TikTok’s absence basically means you can’t newly install the app — at least,

Mac notes that for iPhone users, buying a used phone with TikTok isn’t the worst way to go. If the seller has TikTok downloaded, those apps should remain in place when the b

The app, which was set to be banned, now has a bit more time to find a home and address national security issues

Beijing was steeling itself for a first-week assault from Donald Trump. That hasn’t happened — yet — so Chinese leaders are making nice and hoping to cut a deal.

This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.

Showing a true entrepreneurial spirit, some internet users took advantage of the TikTok ban in the U.S. by putting their phones with the app installed up for sale. O post iPhones with TikTok installed are being sold for up to $25,

People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts.

With no way for users to download TikTok, thousands of eBay sellers have listed phones with the app installed — hoping to capitalize on TikTok’s disappearance from US app stores following a brief ban.

People are selling old phones with TikTok installed for as much as $50,000, and the boom is growing, as Google and Apple have removed the app from their online stores.