Apple introduced a new system-wide feature that lets you pull the subject free from photos in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura. Here's how it works and when you'll want to use it.
This Week in Apps: Clubhouse clones, WWDC21, apps have their best-ever quarter
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.