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This Week in Apps: League of Legends goes mobile, Tim Cook talks to China and more

This Week in Apps: League of Legends goes mobile, Tim Cook talks to China and more

5 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/19/this-week-in-apps-league-of-legends-goes-mobile-tim-cook-talks-to-china-and-more/

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support, and the money that flows through it all.

The app industry in 2018 saw 194 billion downloads and more than $100 billion in purchases. Just in the past quarter, consumer spending exceeded $23 billion and installs topped 31 billion. It’s a fact: we spend more time on our phones than we do watching TV.