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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 t...

Google pulls the plug on Android Things Android Things made its debut in 2016. The custom Android aimed at the smart home devices but failed to take off.  Author Android Things shuts down (Pixabay) Google is pulling the plug on Android Things, a customised version of Android aimed at smart home devices. The company said that the Android Things Console would stop supporting new projects on January 5, 2021. It added that the console would be turned down for all current projects on the same date. The company has also published a FAQ page to help developers understand the phasing out process. �...

Popular virtualization software Parallels now supports Apple Silicon in an invite-only Technical Preview -- with notable caveats. Parallels is inviting beta testers to try out its Technical Preview for M1 Macs Parallels showcased an Apple Silicon version of its software at WWDC 2020, but this Technical Preview is the first time the company has made its virtualization app available to M1 Mac users. Parallels is sending invite emails, viewed by AppleInsider, with installation instructions. The Technical Preview has some strict limits in its current state. It only works on M...

Tech Wrap The week is over, and we’re almost done with 2020 but there’s still a lot happening everywhere and in the world of technology. We got to know about a Facebook bug that exposed Instagram users’ personal email IDs and birthdays. Another Google product is shutting down. Apple has decided to halt business with Wistron following the clash with workers at the manufacturing plant. We also got an idea of how much Samsung’s Galaxy S21 series could cost. Qualcomm’s new chipset Snapdragon 888 was also tested on benchmarking websites. Here’s everything that made news in tech today.

The system is a stripped-down version of Android that allows developers to build smart devices that could access Google services, from computer vision to speech processing. When Google released version 1.0 in May 2018, it announced support for system-on-module hardware from NXP, Qualcomm, and MediaTek. After lackluster adoption, Google announced that it would refocus the Android Things project purely on OEMs producing smart speakers and smart displays in February 2019.  Android Things would become a platform for OEM partners to build devices with Google Assistant built-in, the search giant s...