John Gruber on the implications for sideloading if TikTok remains unavailable in the App Store:

If I’m wrong and TikTok remains in this half-zombie state in the US — unavailable in the App Store or Play Store, but operational if you have the app installed on your phone — it’ll be interesting if TikTok is the app that makes the mass market actually care about the lack of sideloading on iOS. It’ll be interesting too if sideloading on Android goes mainstream because of this.

TikTok should make an iOS marketplace app in the EU to demonstrate to US customers what they’re missing.