Apple just removed WhatsApp, Signal, and other messaging apps from its Chinese app store.
But it could happen in the US, too, if a TikTok ban bill becomes law.
It's from an unidentified Apple comms person, to The Wall Street Journal, explaining why Apple just took four messaging/social media apps — WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram — out of its Chinese app store.
If the TikTok bill does become law, it won't make TikTok go away overnight in the US.
But if the law jumps enough hurdles to become enforceable, Apple would have to remove TikTok from its US app store, as would Google.
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