https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/17/this-week-in-apps-a-surprising-report-on-app-tracking-apple-event-predictions-instagram-for-kids/ > 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.