Welcome back to ThisWeek 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 saw194 billion downloadsand more than $100 billion in purchases.
Just in the past quarter,consumer spending exceeded $23 billionand installs topped 31 billion.
It a fact: we spend more time on our phonesthan we do watching TV.This week, Chinese censorship is still a big topic, and one which sees Apple CEO sitting down with Chinese regulators to discuss.
China was also found to have forced a spy app on its people, according to a code review.
Meanwhile, TikTok got cloned in Russia.
It also decided to bring in corporate lawyers to help it to figure out how to moderate its content and be transparent.We also take a look at headlines about Luna Display response to sherlocking, an Arcade developer localization efforts, and hear from a former App Store reviewer, among other things.Let get to it.