This Week in Apps: App Store privacy labels, Facebook criticizes Apple over ad targeting, Twitter kills Periscope
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 is as hot as ever, with a record 204 billion downloads and $120 billion in global consumer spend in 2019. Not including third-party Chinese app stores, iOS and Android users downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020. Consumer spend also hit a record $112 billion across iOS and Android alone. In 2019, people spent three hours and 40 minutes per day using apps, rivaling TV. Due to COVID-19, time spent in apps jumped 25% year-over-year on Android.
FOSS Patents: Computer Games
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FOSS Patents: Viral Days
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Back in March, some low-quality games from traditional genres, basically cheap knockoffs of titles like
Angry Birds and
Super Mario Bros., had been rethemed and rebranded as COVID-19 games. But they made no sense. You don t cure a disease by throwing toilet rolls at virus-like faces, or avoid getting infected by jumping over obstacles. What I wanted to come up with instead was a game that would really make a difference. A game that would
demonstrate the problem of exponential propagation in a simplified, time-compressed form and
promote several of the most effective ways to stop (or at least slow down) the spread of the virus.
FOSS Patents: HTML 5
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