What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money?

to rent Photoshop for $20/mo, your creative projects are not your IP

How is that even legal?

And that despite charging for it, they fill many versions of it with adverts, install without asking bloatware and crap paid for by other companies to shove down your throat, and also sells your personal information to (checks) at least 801 third parties.

I was legit baffled by how such a shit peace of software could become so ubiquitous – until I got to know SAP and realized that Teams isn't even in the bottom half of enterprise software quality.

Oh, you're going to update without notifying me and then not restart?

You truly are the paramount of usefulness, Teams.

The entirety of Office365 has become crap, especially the online version.

Thanks, I hate it.

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...

Calculator emulators are the way. Wabbit for ti-84 and similar, and hp prime (official) for a full CAS.

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.

Money laundering? Or just going kids download on devices with their parents data to go unnoticed for months at a time?

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 pay to subscribe though.

Soulver is the best calculator on my Mac and has been for more than a decade now.

I paid for the pro version of HiPER calc, well worth it as I use it daily.

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.

Haseba Calc on iOS is amazing. Well worth it.

They always want to charge per user too instead of just charging a monthly fee. They'd rather have no money than not charge per user it's actual crazy. Imagine any other industry turning away paying customers when it doesn't cost them anything to have the customer. Software companies are insane. Can't wait until their funding runs out.

Oof. Yes!

The proprietary cloud crap usually has worse or non-existent documentation, fewer features, and a terrible or non-existent API.

But it comes with a salesperson. So there's that.

But people with cloud server orchestration skills are terrifyingly expensive right now, so self-hosting a better product can be a very hard sell.

Sometimes the value add is security, sometimes scaling or uptime. Enterprise considerations aren't necessarily the same as for individual consumers.

Sometimes it's just a dogshit product though, and the sales team pulled the wool over some execs eyes.

Oh fuck yeah! So much of my research into new tools is just checking to see if they have a demo, documentation, and price.

When I'm looking for a new tool, I don't have the time to schedule a "quick" 20 minute call to do introductions and schedule a follow-up hour long meeting followed by a quote sent over in an email days later only to find out the price is so far outside the range there is no way it's ever going to happen!

I'm not some useless middle manager looking for any excuse to look busy; I don't have that kind of time to waste!

You pay for the support.

Outlook should be way higher. I cannot believe how in tarnation I cannot view the reply they gave me if I'm standing in my sent folder. I have to copy past the subject and searchthe mail again on my inbox. And the ficking alerts that don't trigger at friggin all WTF?

I googled nr. 1 and watched their promotional video.
Sooooo many buzzwords. From their marketing material, I have literally no idea what the software even does, but I can already tell it's utter shit.

THEY ARE GLORIOUS

Where the crab come into it? Deep fried cream cheese sounds awesome

There's a Triad-backed Catonese place near me that makes crab rangoons with actual crab in them. They are fantastic.

Also how discord dœs stickers . Like custom emojes , they're tied to discord servers , unless you have nitro then you can use them everywhere . Such BS system , shoulda done them how LINE dœs them : you only need to buy the sticker pack once then you use them anywhere , no shitty subscription needed !

The thing that I find insane is having to pay for Nitro to have an animated .gif as your profile pic.

...The animation is played client-side, so literally costs Discord nothing to do this, and as a matter of fact it's actually more effort for them to intentionally block animations from playing until you pony up than just letting the browser container the app runs in natively do its thing. Given that the Discord app itself is basically just a glorified webview container with some stuff bolted onto it.

And the animations on them are so obnoxious I actively add custom CSS to remove them.
Vencord FTW

what bothers me even more than the price is that they all suck, and none of them fit my aesthetic. I could make my own decorations, and I'm offended that discord won't let me.

On a similar note, skins and other cosmetics in video games that do nothing to help with camouflage—or worse—make you stand out more. Never understood why people waste money on that.

Holy fuck, as if I needed more reasons to hate Discord... back when I thought it was just a new iteration of xFire I still hated it but could at least see a purpose for it, but it doesn't even do all the shit xFire could

Sounds like a front for either blatant adware or malware with botted reviews/downloads to bring it to the top in search results. I can't image there isn't a free app that does this.

I remember writing one of those using a bitmap font from some Arduino LCD driver program and publishing it for free on the Android store. Someone offered £50 for the source code and I wonder if they're related.

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

watch face app, Facer I think is like this. and still bombards you with ads and banners.

I have been creating ad removal patches for 2 apps this week. Revanced is truly amazing

I know you are talking about Xhitter.

But I would Donate my Lemmy Instance go get some funny feature xD.

Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product.

I feel your pain. Or rather, I felt it once and am now freed!

We were big into Atalassian when they announced they were going cloud only. We had on-prem versions of Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

We pretty quickly said "Fuck that", mostly because we have an on-prem policy for IP protection.

I was pretty happy to spend some time searching for replacements, mostly because it was my job to apply upgrades to these steaming, tottering piles of badly written java horseshit. They looked pretty, but the upgrade process was convoluted and quite often failed terminally. I still think that the difficulty of upgrading the hosted versions was a driver towards cloud only, mostly because it exposed how shite the things were and how many complaints they must have got for offering an on-prem product that was so hard to maintain, despite looking pretty.

I take some pleasure that the Atlassian share price is now half what it was before they did this.

(If anyone was interested; Confluence and Jira were replaced by Youtrack. Bitbucket by Teamcity. Both by Jetbrains, both much easier to upgrade (Teamcity is web-based one-click), and our licencing costs are about half what we paid to Atlassian)

Jira breaking is a feature. Free time to do nothing

Those "I'm rich" apps basically tested the app store price limit which was set to $9,999 (don't know if it's different now). Brilliant idea really.

I put this in the same category as the "Million dollar homepage" where some guy asked for $1 a pixel and hosted a page with the results. Something smart that if it gets enough attention could make someone good money for not a lot of work. And generally something that will only work once as copycats won't be seen to have the same value.

It is expensive, but its not surprising that it costs money

Novelty apps were practically the majority of what was out there in the early days of Android and iOS. I remember a lighter app, and an electric shaver app.

My favorite novelty app was that marble maze game on iOS that* used the accelerometer. I got really good at finishing those mazes in seconds, which upset my cousin because it was his phone and I demolished all his best times, lol. Only video game I was ever good at.

I've never really understood the imitation app developers. Like your first little run of the novelty, sure, makes sense, minimal effort that might pay itself off or even go viral, but why do the imitations think they have the same shot?

Over 9000!!!! 😱🤯

I don't know, not the worst in this thread at least.

Isn't it kind of a middle-man service so you don't get narc'd on by your ISP for large amounts of p2p traffic? That way all your ISP sees is you downloading data from one source rather than lots of.p2p traffic.

Unless you use vpn obviously, that doesn't have issues with p2p traffic or whatever.

Its really slow without it. And its like a vpn but lighter, so you don't get caught torrenting by an isp.

I discovered it only a while ago and during that time it has been clearly neutered. It just doesn’t work for stuff like it used to.

Most likely copyright strikes caught up to it

huh? i use boost (and used to use it for reddit before the whole API thing) and haven't ever seen it ask for money or anything

What's wrong with Sync, lol

I read your comment, I thought a sec, and I just paid to remove the ads for boost.

Love boost.

What 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.

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.

I sail the high seas quite often. I also pay for spotify because it's stupid easy.

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.

Imagine 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.

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.

It really is a shame that blackplayer is not being updated anymore afaik