This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide
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 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.
This Week in Apps: Parler denied App Store re-entry, Walmart doubles down on TikTok live shopping, Instagram Lite rolls out worldwide
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March 13, 2021, 7:00 AM·19 min read
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 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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Uber has made many changes over the years, and the pandemic has forced a reckoning in its business.
It has offloaded expensive distractions and put its focus back on ride-hailing and food delivery.
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is nearing a $100 million payday as Wall Street embraces Uber s turnaround.
When I set out to write a book about Uber in 2016, what most impressed me about the company s story was that it was a direct outgrowth of Apple s App Store.
Founded in 2009, the year after the launch of the App Store, Uber turned an iPhone into an automated taxi dispatch service by matching a GPS chip with a credit-card payment system. This observation by Uber inventor Garrett Camp represented true innovation.