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I wonder what the ownership transfer of a multi-billion dollar app looks like?

Like, what emails, button clicks, phone calls, etc, is involved in changing the ownership of the iOS app from one party to another? Presumably it's a different process from like, a toy app with zero downloads?

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Mechanically speaking, App Store has App Transfer functionality. Here is Apple's documentation on it: https://help.apple.com/app-store-connect/#/deved688524f

I am more interested to know how you cut up the actual content. A user from Japan liked a video from an American user a year ago, what happens to that? Are the users still on the same tiktok shard? Do we somehow remove all foreign interaction from the American shard? Do users from Canada get to choose which shard to go with?

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