TL;DR
MKBHD is shutting down the Panels app at the end of this month, citing issues with finding the right development team fit.
You can no longer buy collections, and you must download existing wallpapers before the app is removed.
Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.
And nothing of value will be lost.
How fast was that fucker driving again? in a residential area, with “watch out for the kids” signs if I remember correctly.
Edit: 96 in a 35 mph zone
In a sponsored shill video that also got him roasted. He must have been in 96mph hurry to destroy his youtube career.
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I wish YouTube had the block channels option.
Genuine question: who bought this?
It was used exclusively by his viewers who had formed parasocial relationships.
Literally, no one else.
Well that’s a shame for the 5 people who used it.
Wallpaper App? Like WTF? Isn’t a wallpaper just whatever you put there and that is pretty much freely available?
PAY!!! I don’t use wallpaper at all, but if I did, I couldn’t imagine paying!
Never heard of it. Why do you need an app to download wallpapers in the first place?
It’s been around for like 2 years now I believe. There was a bit of hype about it when it first came out since he’s a popular influencer but it didn’t get many to actually sign up for the $50 a year subscription. I do know people did the on time purchases of some individual wallpapers though. As to why, I think he is too into the Apple ecosystem of everything being a subscription that he forgets that most people can’t afford nonsense.
$50/yr for wallpapers?!?! That’s some asshat seeing the enshitification train and thinking, “Man I gotta get on THAT!”
$50/yr?!?!
For WALLPAPERS?!?!
amusing thing is that when it came out someone ripped all the wallpapers from the app and put them online for free. most of it was AI slop anyways.
Haha yeah they were in like a Google cloud folder the app would call to to retrieve them. They were available for free the same day it released
I can only imagine with his audience size what his team looks like right now. I’m sure they aren’t content with standard YT revenue and are always looking for ways to turn his massive fame into more dollars. They cover a lot of silly expensive high end shit like Rivians and Apple Vision. It’s not crazy to think that they could milk the rich fools for a buck. Believe it or not there are people who think to themselves “Hm, interesting. $50? Okay, that’s nothing, I’ll check it out.”
Not for this one but hey Muzei is nice. You get new wallpapers daily (or whichever frequency you might wanna set) on anything interesting you. By default it’s art, but you can get additional plugins about whatever scratches your itch. I’m fine with it downloading daily landscapes from Bing (but without Bing getting to check at anything in my phone).
I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.
I’m also not in the target demo since I currently have my wallpaper set to whatever my phone wants to rotate in and out every hour from my Photos app.
I spent $50 a year on wallpapers once as a monthly subscription. It was to support an independent artist that hand painted video game scenes I enjoyed, produced 1-3 new paintings per month, granted access to his back catalog, and the deliverable was high quality scans I could download and use at my leisure.
Since he is an artist, and you could feel that each painting took weeks to complete, I felt justified.
Never had a desire to pay for an app with generic wallpapers though, or to financially support someone who generates my annual salary per sponsorship deal.
Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.
That’s the correct way to wind down a cloud based subscription app.
Not that I’m in favor of the entire business model of cloud based subscription apps, but at least Marques is ending this one the right way.
full proprietary circle
open-source never dies
