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Welcome back to This Week in\u00a0Apps,\u00a0the weekly TechCrunch series\u00a0that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also\u00a0spent\u00a03.5 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. Apps aren\u2019t just a way to pass idle hours \u2014 they\u2019re also a big business. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a\u00a0combined\u00a0$544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus. In 2020, investors\u00a0poured\u00a0$73 billion in capital into mobile companies \u2014 a figure that\u2019s up 27% year-over-year This week we\u2019re diving into how Apple is defending its App Store fees amid the Epic lawsuit and how it responded to the other complaints raised by Spotify, Match and Tile in the Senate antitrust hearing. We\u2019re also looking at new data that implies Facebook\u2019s grip on social is starting to loosen, TikTok\u2019s new features, tests and plans for e-commerce, security issues with Twitter\u2019s Tip Jar and more. This Week in Apps will soon be a newsletter! Sign up here: techcrunch.com\/newsletters Apple talks App Store fraud Apple wants developers to know what they\u2019re paying for with those App Store commissions. The company this week announced it stopped more than… Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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