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Japan could soon require Third-Party App Stores for both Apple and Google devices. Japan could soon force both Apple and Google, as well as other similar companies, to allow third-party application stores on its devices, as per 9to5mac, citing Nikkei Asia as its source.
This Week in Apps: Apple scolds adtech, Facebook hit with antitrust suits, Twitter buys Squad 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 m...