This Week in Apps: Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store

This Week in Apps: Google I/O hits and misses, Snap goes shopping, Parler returns to App Store

TechCrunch·2021-05-23 12:01

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.

The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.

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