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It is universally accepted that when a person offends another person, it is the offender who goes to the offended person to reconcile. The offender goes to the offended to admit to the wrong done to the offended, render an apology, and ask for forgiveness.
In many African cultures, this principle is sometimes taken a step further. Depending on the seriousness of the matter, the offender takes along an elderly person or someone respected in the society to plead his or her case. The idea is that even if the offended was not inclined to accept the apology, he or she may consider the elderly or respected person and accept it. Many conflicts and disputes in Africa are resolved this way.
Zoom, Google Meet, TikTok dominate mobile app downloads in 2020
Study from leading analytics firm reveals how 2020’s mobile app arena has been transformed through Covid-19, and how the app providers are setting up for 2021
Share this item with your network: By Published: 14 Dec 2020 10:15
In December 2019, nobody could have accurately predicted what would be happening a year later, and in an example of how lockdowns and stay-at-home orders have reordered the worlds of work, research from comms analytics specialist AppAnnie has shown how much conferencing has become a leading mobile activity over the past 12 months.
The study looked at the leading apps of 2020 by downloads and app store consumer spend through to 14 November 2020, along with average monthly active users throughout October. Across iOS and Google Play, total spend in mobile apps and games set a new annual record.
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Global time spent on Android phones increased 25% from 2019 to more than 3.3 trillion hours, according to App Annie s 2020 End of Year Mobile Report that was shared with Marketing Dive. While all app categories in the report saw respective lifts in time spent social and comms (+20%), shopping (+25%), finance (+25%), games (+35%) and video streaming (+40%) the overall growth was largely driven by a 200% surge in business app usage.
Worldwide spending across Apple s App Store and Google Play also grew 25% year-over-year to $112 billion, with mobile app and game downloads swelling 10% from last year to 130 billion.
As mobile usage soared this year, the biggest winners were TikTok and remote collaboration tools that became de facto tools of those working from home. On App Annie s ranking of the most downloaded apps, TikTok jumped three spots to top the list, followed by Facebook, WhatsApp and Zoom Cloud Meetings, which moved 219 spots up the list. Instagram, Facebook M