Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022

Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, i paid like $3, 10 years ago… So, not a great revenue stream for the developer

  Obviously selling to an ad company is not good, but i’m not sure what the alternative is in a world where everyone expects everything for free

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  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So, not a great revenue stream for the developer

    For context Nova Prime has over 5+ million paying users, and it’s $6 when I check the Play Store.

    The dev was just a single guy, who later hired someone to help with support and artwork. But if $30 million in revenue wasn’t good enough, I’m not sure what else you could expect.

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    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      while still a lot of money, keep in mind, a decent amount of those downloads was bought on sale. in my own personal context, i only had bought it when it was 1$

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      • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For sure, fair point. But we’re still talking millions, and far more than the guy was making at his previous, full-time job. In an interview, he said all he needed was $100 / day in sales to quit his full-time job… obviously, he exceeded that. LOL

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      • DrM@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I bought it for 10ct

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    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Had no idea about the user base numbers. I withdraw my objections lol

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