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by on_and_off 2097 days ago
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I wonder how this would work ? Google can for sure remove an app from the play store and maybe even remove it from play services enabled phones.

If I am European and travel (in some hypothetic future where it is possible) to the USA, does tiktok get removed from my phone ?

Edit : I can open now. Some notes re : different apks for sideloading. I don't know if the author is being malicious here but they are inventing problems that don't exist. Yeah, there can be multiple apks for a given app (that's the main idea behind app bundles). However if you distribute your app yourself you either

- provide an universal apk that will install on all devices. It will be way larger since it needs to incorporate all the different possible configurations, but is trivial to make for a dev.

- detect the user device config and provide a download link tailored to that device. I guess tiktok is popular enough to go that route, but that's just a minor engineering point.

Also wow, very classy to insult people who use an app. Of course if you don't like a service people who do have to be dumb.