Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app

mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sag@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You think it’s new? It’s have already done by so many people in Android community. Like Widepaper, Wallfever, Wallbyte etc. These all apps are paid. People actually pay for Wallpapers.

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• ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve not looked into it, but it’s probably pitched as a feel-good way of supporting artists.

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• spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Remember when people paid for ringtones? Doesn’t mean it isn’t stupid, especially as a subscription, but people do stupid things and other people take advantage.

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And Ringback tones too. For when people called you, so they could listen to your favorite song instead of the ring of the phone while waiting for you to pick up.

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I forgot about that! And most songs sound like ass when you hear it over a phone, especially before whatever they did in the last decade to make voice calls more clear

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• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Back in the day people paid for ringtones, wallpapers, etc. Dumbest thing ever were ‘ringbacks’ where you paid to have a song or something play when people called you. So the people buying it didn’t even hear it, they just forced other people to listen to a shitty low fidelity garbled mess of a song they liked while you waited for them to pick up the phone.

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