Apple has the finances to buy just about anything, but with TikTok there are more reasons than money that mean it won't buy the social media platform.

As for Apple’s unprecedented action, this was spotted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in a post on X, who pointed out that Apple issued a support document about TikTok, titled “About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. Apps in the United States.”

While President Trump has signed an executive order providing TikTok an extra 75 days in the US, the company has not returned the app to the Apple and Google app stores. As a result, some are selling their phones that already have the app downloaded.

Phones that still have TikTok installed on them are fetching high prices on eBay, days after the social media platform's short-lived ban in the United States. The TikTok app is currently unavailable in the Apple App Store — making it available only to those who previously installed the app before its recent ban.

Apple Inc. and Oracle Corp. have reacted differently to President Donald Trump's pledge that the US government won't enforce a national security law that raised potential penalties for US partners of the popular video app TikTok.

The Trump administration is denying it, but Trump previously said he'd like to see the software company take it over.

The TikTok app is still not available in Google Play or Apple's App Store despite Trump's order halting the ban. Here's what's happening.

In a rare move amid the TikTok shutdown, Apple has published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in the

While the U.S. TikTok blackout may have lasted only hours, the app has still not made a return to the iPhone's App Store.

Three days after ByteDance's TikTok went dark and then was quickly revived in the United States, users who deleted the app were anxiously checking iPhone and Android devices to find it still unavailable to be downloaded again.

There are also TikTok-loaded devices that are listed for sale for just hundreds of dollars. Some sellers advertise phones with active TikTok accounts, while others say the app is installed, but not linked to an account. Ebay did not immediately respond to CBS MoneyWatch's request for comment on the listings.

The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.