In the past 30 days, four of the top 10 most-downloaded apps in the U.S. across Apple's iOS store and the Google Play store are owned by Chinese companies. TikTok made the cut. Its CEO was in the hot seat in a Congressional hearing last week.
While an increasing number of Chinese apps are becoming popular to download, these apps still struggle to provide American users with the same sense of daily utility as those made by U.S. companies.TikTok is the only app in the top 20 most-visited apps in the U.S. last month, per Comscore. Eight of the top 10 are owned by Google or Meta. The vast majority of the top 20 are owned by those two firms, Amazon or Apple.
Online in China, Chew is being described as a "punching bag" for American lawmakers and praised as a hero.The tension between China and Washington has come to a head over the national security risks that U.S. imports of foreign technology could pose.at hardware and enterprise technology firms like Huawei and ZTE. TikTok is the first major consumer app that lawmakers are publicly threatening to ban.
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