if you were one PhoneArena Readers from early 2014, you may remember our coverage of the Flappy Bird sensation. The game was a huge hit and required the player to navigate Flappy Bird through a variety of pipes. Misunderstand the Flappy Birds’ evacuation through Pipe and Buzz! The game is over. To say that Flappy Bird was popular in early 2014 would be like calling The Beatles just another rock band.
At its peak, Flappy Bird was taking in $50,000 per day in advertising revenue and in-app accessory sales. As of January 2014, Flappy Bird was the most downloaded free game in the App Store. Less than two weeks after the game was listed on the Google Play Store,
Developer Dong Nguyen removed the app from all platformsAs a result of this shocking move, Flappy Bird was no longer available on the App Store or Play Store, setting off a truly unique dynamic. Used iOS and Android models with Flappy Bird pre-installed were going on sale at really great prices. For example, the iPhone 5 with 16GB of storage pre-loaded with Flappy Bird received five and six-figure bids on eBay!
This phenomenon is repeating itself thanks to the great American pastime TikTok. When we last left the short-form video app, a US law signed by former President Joe Biden forced TikTok owner ByteDance to shut down the app in the US unless a replacement for it was found before January 19. American buyer is not found. Last Saturday night TikTok began disappearing from US phones as well as US app storefronts like Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store.
In America, phones with pre-installed TikTok are getting a huge premium Image Credit- eBay
TikTok comes back to life The day after newly installed President Donald Trump signed an executive order requesting that his attorney general not enforce the TikTok ban for 75 days. During this period, the Trump administration will “explore the appropriate course of action moving forward in an orderly manner that will protect national security while avoiding an abrupt closure of the app.”
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Google has decided not to list TikTok on its US app storefront until the app finds an American sugar daddy, those who haven’t installed the app on their phones before last weekend are out of luck. Are. That is, as long as they don’t mind digging into their pockets to buy a phone that already has TikTok installed on it. It’s Flappy Bird again. On eBay, a variety of phones with TikTok pre-installed were offered for prices ranging from $340 to $50,000.
Locked on a pre-owned mid-range Galaxy A54
T Mobile Comes with TikTok with 128GB of storage and is priced at $10,000 on eBay. Without TikTok, this phone retails for about $450. Just how ridiculous these prices are will be determined by how desperate some US phone owners are to have TikTok on their handsets.