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Everyone that buys this garbage deserves to lose their money.
this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2024
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Marques Brownlee: "Don't pay for what something will be, pay for what it is now" and "I don't review what will be, but what a product is now"
Also Marques Brownlee: "Pay the subscription fee now for the unnamed unspecified features this will have other than just wallpapers now to fund future development"
Who knew the next company he would "kill" would be his own. The only way to find his app on Android is to use the link from his site because of the generic name.
BTW Wallpaper Engine, which has an android app, is currently $5 Canadian, and I am told with Proton can also work on Linux PC's and has an huge amount of modifiable wallpapers.
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Yikes
Can people no longer upload a JPG to their phones? What am I missing here?
It sounds like it's a way to get high quality original art / photos for use as backgrounds and support the people making them too.
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New "LOOK I AM RICH" app.
I hear you, but I hear the money counter MORE
I hear you, but it was worth a try.
Yeah, you last part us on point. This is for smaller demographic while the subscribers of his YT channel is more average tech enthusiasts.
Haven’t watched him in forever. Has he reached full money grab?
Paying for ANY wallpaper is just silly, much less a subscription model.
The only time you should pay for one if it’s an artist you want to actively support and/or thank for that specific work.
For the last 30 years, they've been trying to charge for dumb shit like wallpapers, screen savers, mouse cursors.
Who are these people who buy them? And what's wrong with you?
ringtones baby
I remember watching the rich kid in middle school buy a ring tone right in front of me, flexing that his device could play a 12-second loop of Tubthumping by Chumbawamba.
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Yeah, that was a cash cow for a few years and now everybody has their phone on vibrate.
Crazy Frog itensifies
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When toy story came out, i saw this toy story pc game. I put all my money together just to then find out that it wasn't a game, it was a cd rom with like 12 wallpapers on it.
I would cry so hard.
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"I hear you"
Corporate PR phrase detected. Product mentally blacklisted
Paying for wallpapers is just not justifiable to me, especially when there are so many sources that offer high quality wallpapers for free, from apps to dedicated forums to simply online search.
It's cool for people with lots of extra cash I guess. I like that 50% of profits go to the artists.
That said, I am certainly not one of those people with extra money to spend on wallpapers. Seems like we're not the target demographic.
Maybe that's part of this guy's problem here. His channel has a broader appeal than the app, so the people outside the app's target demographic got irritated.
Muzei - a free wallpaper changer on f-droid
It has many sources for images, like NASA APOD, masterpieces, NatGeo, Ghibli and others.
Wow I had no idea the subscription was that much. He mentioned it in a video without saying the price and I still wouldn't do it.