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A comment on Ask HN: Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government?.

Re:Ask HN: Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government? by gc22browsing on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:15PM (#32199568)
The US govt outsources software development to the big consulting firms. Any one of them would take 5 years and $10B to create an equivalent app. And then it would only run with Microsoft Explorer (not Edge).
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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government? by muzani on Saturday July 23, 2022 @03:32AM (#32201223)
I'd bet Meta has/will spend at least 5 years and $10B creating an equivalent app, and they're the (second) best in the world at this.
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