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.