YouTuber MKBHD (Marques Brownlee), sparked controversy and backlash after launching ‘Panels,’ a subscription-based, HD wallpaper app for phones.

Bro really tried to sell his subscribers a “50$ a year” subscription to a “wallpaper” app.

Interesting points about the “app”:

  • the app has premium and free wallpapers
  • the free wallpapers are only available in sd quality and if you want hd youd have to subscribe
  • in order to unlock the sd quality you have to watch two 30 second ads.
  • theres a wallpaper called “orange” thats just the color orange
    • bitofhopeEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Can’t the OSs resize the image by itself? IIRC Windows 9x could already do that.

      • bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        😅 Sorry, my intention was to compare the value compared to the value of a Panels subscription