This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google's antitrust trial gets a date

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. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to the latest “State […]

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This Week in Apps: Twitter kills third-party apps, Instagram adds Quiet Mode, Google's antitrust trial