TikTok is not an investment in tech, it’s an investment in relations with the US...

throw_m239339 · on Sept 21, 2020

MS has plenty of "relations with the US public sector" already, they won the DOD JEDI contract. They didn't need to spend anything on TikTok.

TikTok is a fad, like Instagram and other social networks.

redisman · on Sept 21, 2020

I'm not sure about this take. Are Facebook and Twitter fads 15 something years later?

toyg · on Sept 21, 2020

> MS has plenty of "relations with the US public sector" already

Indeed, which is why in the end they didn't go for it and oracle did: one of the two cared about improving the relationship more than the other.

colesantiago · on Sept 21, 2020

Sure, but we are talking about Microsoft here.

You should look at the rumoured purchase price that Microsoft was willing to pay for TikTok.