Recently, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning TikTok parent ByteDance, and WeChat from any transactions with US companies. This order could mean that Apple will be forced to remove WeChat from the App Store across the world. Earlier, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo had said that removing WeChat could result in a 30% decline in iPhone sales because of its impact on Chinese audiences, and now another survey is highlighting a similar potential issue for Apple.
WeChat hasn’t taken any legal steps against Trump’s orders. However, TikTok has said it will sue the US government for attempting to ban the app in the country. How the US government handles the ban going forward is something that remains to be seen. Right now, things don’t seem that good for any of the companies involved with this order, including US giants such as Apple.
