This Week in Apps: Parler deplatformed, alt apps rise, looking back at 2020 trends
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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Buy now! Good morning! What did I say about not being exhausted from CES while working-from-home? There’s a lot going on, and some really interesting things, too!
Daily Authority: Everything CES 2021 day one, and more
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Keeping up with CES wasn’t meant to be easy, but here’s a try!
Qualcomm has a new second-gen ultrasonic fingerprint reader that’s 77% larger and 50% faster, is now compatible with foldables, and should arrive in “early 2021” maybe the Galaxy S21 will have it? It took Qualcomm nearly two years to update its original, which is pretty slow going.
LG’s virtual conference included a bunch of new OLED TV announcements including next-generation EVO OLED technology, an extra-large C1, the brighter G1, and AI-driven features. We saw much more of the LG Rollable phone, a bendable OLED display, and more about the 2021 Gram laptops. LG also has an OLED monitor coming soon, a 31.5-inch 4K display, but not availability or pricing yet, and
The methods of surveillance have changed over time. Nowadays, government agencies do not need to follow someone to track their activities. Mobile phone users, unknowingly, hand over their privacy rights to the tech companies that in turn sell it to government contractors. A popular Muslim prayer app, named Salaat First, found selling users location data to its partner that has customers with the US government agencies including the FBI and the ICE.
Salaat First, which reminds its users about Muslim prayer timings, has been downloaded over 10 million times on Android. To accurately tell users prayer times, Salaat First asks for permission to read precise location, has access to device ID, phone, media storage, USB storage and full network access. However, the app developer was selling the same user data to its partner, a French firm named Predicio.
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