That is VERY interesting!!! Thanks for sharing. Ma
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This is the funny part...
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TikTok also posted a passage from its federal lawsuit: "the 'qualified divestiture' demanded by the Act to allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally. And certainly not on the 270-day timeline required by the Act."
The reality is... it IS possible, commercially, technologically, and legally. Of course TikTok is gonna say that because they don't want to change a thing and plan A would be to right it in court for years, but now we know they have a solid plan B.
Cloning the systems is fairly routine and actually how you get any ginormous application to scale, have redundancy and disaster recovery. Quite common with any important applications to be able to failover to a different data center. Google is a master of this as your data may be spread out / duplicated all over the place. TikTok just just doesn't run on a single gigantic server the size of Delaware.
This is BS and positioning too.
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If TikTok completes the work to split the recommendation engine from its Chinese counterpart, TikTok management is aware of the risk that TikTok U.S. may not be able to deliver the same level of performance as the existing TikTok because it is heavily reliant on ByteDance’s engineers in China to update and maintain the code base to maximize user engagement, sources added.
Performance actually may be better on dedicated servers, databases, etc and China engineers could continue to work on it. US companies outsource software development to APAC all the time.
This is great news for Verb and totally derisks the partnership which btw, no other company has one like this.
The reality is while the US has it's beefs with China, this should be the least of their concerns. It's pushed to the top of the list because Meta and other US companies indirectly line the pockets of politicians on both sides. Just go look at their trading history as I've previously posted.
Meta is probably laughing their asses off as it shifted the focus off of them.