If only Apple had announced the pricing!Īpple to introduce A/B testing and in-app events to the App Storeīeyond the App Store product itself, Apple overhauled its App Store policies to address the growing problem of scam apps. While Xcode Cloud may not replace solutions designed for larger teams with more diverse needs, it’s poised to make app development easier - and deliver a new revenue stream to Apple. Beyond the immediate improvements to the development process (which developers are incredibly excited about based on #WWDC21 tweets) Xcode Cloud represents a big step by Apple further into the cloud services space, where Amazon (AWS), Google and Microsoft have dominated. Apple says the service, birthed out of its 2018 Buddybuild acquisition, will help to speed up the pace of development by combining cloud-based tools for building apps along with tools to run automated tests in parallel, deliver apps to testers via TestFlight and view tester feedback through the web-based App Store Connect dashboard. Xcode CloudĪpple’s development IDE, Xcode 13, now includes Xcode Cloud, a built-in continuous integration and delivery service hosted on Apple’s cloud infrastructure.
This Week in Apps will soon be a newsletter! Sign up here: /newsletters WWDC 21 Wrap-Upīut after a few days of processing everything new, here’s what’s jumping out as the bigger takeaways and updates.
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This week, our series will take a dive into the key announcements impacting app developers from WWDC 21. In 2020, investors poured $73 billion in capital into mobile companies - a figure that’s up 27% year-over-year. In 2019, mobile-first companies had a combined $544 billion valuation, 6.5x higher than those without a mobile focus. Currently, the average American watches 3.7 hours of live TV per day, but now spends four hours per day on their mobile devices.Īpps aren’t just a way to pass idle hours - they’re also a big business. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV.
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Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. 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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