One of the most notable updates is how Google now plans to redesign Google Search for the TikTok generation. It understands that the days when people taught themselves how to use Boolean operators to narrow search results, then clicked back and forth through dozens of blue links, are now behind us.Īt an event this week, Google introduced how it’s revamping its products as a result of these behavioral changes, starting with Google Search and Maps. Google, to its credit, has identified this shift as a threat to its core business. It’s all starting to get a little ridiculous, isn’t it? This week, it was the NBA app that added a vertical video feed of sports content, for some reason, while Twitter announced the introduction of a TikTok-inspired feed for watching videos on its app. And it seems not a day goes by when some other app announces its own TikTok-like feed has arrived. Already we’ve seen top social apps like Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube clone the vertical feed format in their own apps. The TikTok-ification of today’s web is nearly overwhelming. Top Stories So we’re just TikTok-ing all the things now Want to attend TechCrunch Disrupt? Click here for 15% off passes. This Week in Apps offers a way to keep up with this fast-moving industry in one place with the latest from the world of apps, including news, updates, startup fundings, mergers and acquisitions, and much more.ĭo you want This Week in Apps in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here: /newsletters. Global spending across iOS and Google Play last year was $133 billion, and consumers downloaded 143.6 billion apps.
But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has diminished. 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.
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