This Week in Apps: An Apple event, more Clubhouse clones and an app store antitrust hearing
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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Interfax-Ukraine to host online press conference on imposition of sanctions against individuals, legal entities Without trial, investigation - shooting: NSDC s smuggling lists - how to get clarifications from authorities 1 min read
On Tuesday, April 27, at 12.00, the press center of the Interfax-Ukraine news agency will host an online press conference on the position of Prometey company regarding the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) decision and the imposition of sanctions against Prometey Swiss SA entitled Without trial, investigation - shooting: NSDC s smuggling lists - how to get clarifications from authorities with the participation of Chief Legal Officer of Prometey Group Roman Antonian (8/5a Reitarska Street). The press conference will be available on the YouTube channel of Interfax-Ukraine.
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Apple has encountered another issue with a company, This time, Spotify and Match Group, the company that created Tinder has called out the Cupertino giant over its abusive power on the App Store during the antitrust hearing on Wednesday, Apr. 21.
Spotify, Match Have a Bad Blood with Apple
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Bloomberg reported that Apple has been making a move to overpower its existing tech rivals. For Horacio Gutierrez, the Chief Legal Officer of Spotify, the tech giant s rules are nothing more than an abusive power grab. Apple abuses its dominant position as a gatekeeper of the App Store to insulate itself from competition and disadvantage rival services like Spotify, Gutierrez spoke to the lawmakers.
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WATERFORD, N.Y., April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Soft-Tex International Inc., a leading innovator of sleep and home comfort products, today announced 3 new executive management positions appointing Danielle Ignazzi as Chief Innovation Officer, Christine McKiernan as Chief Quality Officer, and Lloyd Wilson as Chief Legal Officer. We are excited to expand our executive management team with these new promotions and for their continued contributions to our company. Innovation, quality, and legal are critical growth areas for Soft-Tex as we expand and all three have played a major role in Soft-Tex s transformation to an industry leader in home textile innovation, said Mark Smiderle, Soft-Tex Principal.
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Apple has had a history of charging app developers fees for the honor of having an app in the App Store. But several companies have now accused Apple of “anticompetitive” practices in a Senate subcommittee hearing.
The hearing, entitled “Antitrust Applied: Examining Competition in App Stores,” featured testimony from representatives of Spotify, Tile, and Match. The witnesses at the hearing levied several allegations, including that Apple undercut, and even copied, some of its competitors.
Horacio Gutierrez, the head of global affairs and chief legal officer for Spotify, testified that Apple required his company to use Apple’s in-app payment system for users. This system included Apple’s 30 percent fee. Gutierrez noted in his written testimony that the 30 percent fee “forced” the service to raise the price of its premium subscription service from $9.99 to $12.99.