superkretWhat app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?
TheFeatureCreaturePaid calculator apps.
Not only are many of them paid - but they are subscription as well. Imagine paying a monthly fee for your goddamn calculator.
Money laundering? Or just going kids download on devices with their parents data to go unnoticed for months at a time?
Wispy2891They 100% bank on people forgetting cancelling
Also, Apple gave iOS a default calculator just a few months ago. When I had an iPad I had to download dozens and dozens of calculators to find one that didnt have ads or subscriptions
ebolapieA few months ago, in 2007?
Blisterexei think they meant ipadOS
Is it not the same OS? I had one iPhone and came back to Android.
apple brands them as totally seperate os’s but basically ipadOS is just ios with some extra features and different default apps.
One of those differences was the lack of a calculator on ios until recently.
What an interesting omission. Thanks for pointing that out!
I have mixed feelings here. I legitimately paid ($1, once, a decade ago) for a calculator app and feel it was a great value (I still prefer it to this day). But then again the free version was fine too and the one-time payment was essentially a donation to the developer for a great app that unlocked… Themes…
garretbleYeah, I paid for PCalc because someone put in effort to make it, and it’s good. Don’t feel bad about that.
But I wouldn’t subscribe to one.
Yeah the subscription is mind boggling.
talF-Droid has an Android port of the Unix maxima, which is a whole free and open-source computer algebra system, that handles all my heavier lifting. And I’m pretty sure that every phone that I’ve ever seen ships with at a software package that can act as a five-function calculator, if someone is just looking for something simple.
Both of those are very different use cases from what I have, though.
I like that model. You get to try the software for free and have a way to thank the developer and get something extra, rather than just a pure donation.
I paid for the pro version of HiPER calc, well worth it as I use it daily.
Haseba Calc on iOS is amazing. Well worth it.
In a sense this is great news. If you ever need to earn some money (somehow, anyhow) you now know that there are people out they who willingly pay a subscription for their calculator.
Soulver is the best calculator on my Mac and has been for more than a decade now.
Pretty sure I paid for some Ti and HP calc emulators at some point. Only a couple bucks each, worth it at the time. Would not subscribe.
After a long time of using CalcES on my android phone and cheating the ads away with PiHole, I finally spent the very little fee for the pro edition. The app is amazing and the creator absolutely deserves it.
Calculator emulators are the way. Wabbit for ti-84 and similar, and hp prime (official) for a full CAS.
Like the wind...Spotify and apps like it. Imagine paying a subscription to a subpar selection of music when you could just download mp3s. Imagine having skipping a song being a privilege. Are you an abused kid? Is drinking water a privilege too? I paid once for BlackPlayer simply because it’s my favorite music player app. The most important features were free.
WugmeisterIt really is a shame that blackplayer is not being updated anymore afaik
I haven’t had any issues with it. I still use it today
deegeeseWhat if you want to listen to something you didn’t have the foresight to pirate locally first?
Music streaming is very convenient, even easier than piracy.
I agree with you in theory, and in practice for most people. I have weird enough tastes in music though that I haven’t found a single streaming service that has what I want.
If I like the song, I download it when I have internet or mobile data. I support the creators in other ways if possible. $1 from one fan is the equivalent of like 13 million streams from them. I’m not paying to avoid ten minutes of obnoxious ads every time I want to listen to music. Anyway, they found Like the Wind, and it absolutely slaps so I’ll download it on my phone.
How do you play a novel song on demand?
I’ll seek it out when I feel like it. I’m not paying to force myself to sit through stuff I’m not interested in.
There’s an Android port of Soulseek.
I did not know this.
I like Spotify. I don’t often want to listen to an album. I want to listen to a vibe. It’s good for that, and for introducing me to new bands and music.
But yeah, if you’re just using it to listen to one album at a time, and you know which album you want, then you’re using the wrong service.
Downvoted for hating on Spotify. That’s just sad.
I don’t care what crap Spotify offers; it’s well known they go out of their way to avoid paying royalties to the artists. They’re a leech, nothing more, and I will never support them.
Piracy pays them more though?
Sometimes it does. Piracy drives up sales of traditional media (think: vinyl), as well as increasing crowd size at live performances. Also, merch sales scale with awareness of an artist. All of these things equal the payout of millions of plays on spoffy.
Except that using spotify does all of that as well.
I’m not saying that spotify is good. But thinking piracy is better for the artist than spotify is delusional.
I’m delusional, then. Spotify hasn’t paid me a red cent, but piracy has indirectly put money in my pocket and food on my table.
And Spotify hasn’t paid you indirectly?
Yeah, on lemmy if you’re not constantly deepthroating Xi Jinping’s cock, you’re practically digesting Spotify’s cock.
I down voted them for the weird tirade about privilege and being an abused kid. Idk wtf that has to do with hating spotify, but lemmy would look much better without that garbage in the comments.
I sail the high seas quite often. I also pay for spotify because it’s stupid easy.
Subpar selection? I can count on the fingers of one hand the songs I have found on other sources but not Spotify.
I don’t even pay for Spotify, but I still use it to find new music because it’s hands down the best way to do so. I create a playlist of all the new songs I want and then purchase them all when Bandcamp Friday rolls around. I’m getting all the benefits of Spotify without paying them a cent (my ad blocker even works on it too), plus being as supportive as possible to the artists themselves.
What adblocker are you using? I got to the point where on FF with uBlock Origin Spotify just fails and mobile apps are 50/50 with NextDNS
uBlock Origin on Firefox has continued to work for me. It doesn’t skip the ad, but it does prevent any ad audio from playing so it’s just dead air til it’s done. It does have the occasional hiccup where it doesn’t resume the music after the ad is done, but it’s rare enough not to bother me.
I do also have a PiHole but I don’t think that’s contributing, as it behaves no different away from my home network.
blackn1ghtImagine paying a subscription to a subpar selection of music when you could just download mp3s.
Imagine having to go through the hassle of being at a computer and using whatever program you need to use to find the correct songs and then transfering them to your phone, when you could just find the song instantly, no matter where you are.
I used to download tens of thousands of songs back in the day, Spotify is way more convienient, a price I’m perfectly fine paying.
Im with you on this one. I listen to wayyyy too much music to go back to downloading constantly
I forgot I time traveled to 2006. The politics never changed so I thought I was still in 2025.
Anyway in the future we have a thing called cloud storage where you could upload your whole music folder and download it on any device.
As someone who makes music and listens to my own nonsense, I set a onedrive folder as my default location so I can export an mp3 while I’m showering and getting dressed and download the mp3 on my phone when I’m outside.
VeniconeNot useless as such but a wallpaper app or something that expects you to pay £5.99 a month to use. Fuck all the way off with that
Didn’t MKBHD launch some wallpaper app for $12 a month? I heard about it and just figured he was another tech YouTuber who lost touch
ThalesHe then follows up that face plant by getting caught going 85 MPH in a school zone. MKHB is crashing out hard.
Pretty sure he lives in New Jersey, the rest of America doesn’t know he was being passed while in that school zone. Driving is different up there
Interstellar_1He did actually do a really good honest apology for that, restructuring pricing and improving on the app, but then he did the thing of the commentor above me, which was worse.
How could you possibly apologize for charging $12 A MONTH for wallpapers!?
“I was trying to be the Netflix for wallpapers.” /s
watch face all, Facer I think is like this. and still bombards you with ads and banners.
Call me Lenny/LeniThere used to be an app that was a Dragon Ball Z scouter. You could point it at anything with a face and it would tell you a random power level. Apparently mine is 10,550 (I can barely lift a jug of milk).
Over 9000!!! 😱🤯
utter classic
I don’t know, not the worst in this thread at least.