But with this week’s release of iOS 15.1, SharePlay - and a number of mobile app updates ready to support it - have finally arrived. 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 suggestions about new apps and games to try, too.ĭo you want This Week in Apps in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here: /newsletters Apple SharePlay ArrivesĪpple’s new FaceTime feature SharePlay wasn’t immediately available with the iOS 15 launch, as it needed a bit more polish. 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. 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. Grip released a few comparison shots.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. Around that time, Grip remembered that the original version of the title was an HPL2 game, so he asked Gaynor and his team, The Fullbright Company, to dig up the old files. Gaynor took the advice and released Gone Home built on Unity in August.
Frictional pointed Gaynor in the direction of Unity, and that was that. It already existed as a proof-of-concept in the HPL2 engine, but - as usual - Grip said no to licensing its SDK. That’s how it went down with Gaynor and Gone Home.Įarly in development, Gaynor e-mailed Grip to ask if he could release a commercial game using the engine. The company usually tells interested developers to use Unity or Epic Games’ Unreal Development Kit.
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