Musical.ly once held the number one spot in the App Store, with a user base of over 70 million users until, seemingly overnight, it disappeared, leaving TikTok in its place.
So what happened? Turns out Chinese tech company ByteDance bought it for $1 billion dollars in 2017, and subsequently merged it with TikTok. TikTok is now the world’s most popular video sharing app, so the move paid...