This Week in Apps: TikTok viral hit breaks Spotify records, inauguration boosts news app installs, judge rules against Parler
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.
Federal Court Denies Parler s Request to Force Amazon to Host Its Service
In the recent update of the ongoing saga between controversial social media app Parler and the Big Techs like Amazon, Judge Barbara Rothstein from the Western Washington US District Court denied the social network s bid into forcing Amazon to host the site back on its Web Service.
Parler accused Amazon of being motivated by political animus when deciding to cut its Web Service from the network earlier this month. As TechCrunch reported, the judge believes that the suit is nothing but a faint and factually inaccurate speculation. The evidence it has submitted in support of the claim is both dwindlingly slight, and disputed by AWS, the statement reads.
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A federal judge has denied an attempt by conservative social network Parler to force Amazon to host it on AWS. As expected by most who read Parler’s ramshackle legal arguments, the court found nothing in the lawsuit that could justify intervention, only “faint and factually inaccurate speculation.” In the order, filed in the Western Washington […]