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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Wow, I totally did not know about this.
I don’t watch him anyways so it’ll just stay that way.
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.
Sounds cool. Could you please tell me the name of that artist?
Sure - https://www.patreon.com/orioto
He might be doing some digital now (I’m no longer subscribed and I see some free digital sketches in there), but I know when I subscribed the final work was painted on canvas.
His favorite one of mine is titled “Breath of Adventure”, and I’m fortunate he shared a 4k scan that looks amazing on my monitor.
Genuine question: who bought this?
It was used exclusively by his viewers who had formed parasocial relationships.
Literally, no one else.
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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.
Lol good riddance. I cannot stand that smug twat.
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 totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.
It’s too trivial to remember.
Well that’s a shame for the 5 people who used it.
Not much to this for most people unless you did buy any of the wallpapers made by artists on there when it had its inital hype. If you did, best to download and back those up ASAP
full proprietary circle
open-source never dies
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!
If anyone is looking for a great wallpaper app that supports a good company, Wallaroo from Icon Factory is absolutely fantastic and supports good devs that have made great software for a long time.
I remember when it first launched, people managed to get the wallpapers for free somehow. Managed to get them too and they were nothing really special and of course some were AI-ish.
