kinttach @ kinttach @lemm.ee

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exactly

I’m starting to suspect 99¢ isn’t a sustainable price point.

This doesn’t make sense as described. The Mac and its apps are optimized for keyboard and mouse. A tablet form factor would at a minimum require Apple Pencil; fingers aren't precise enough. Combine that with the terrible iOS/iPad virtual keyboard and it does not seem compelling.

The repost bots often use oddly-phrased headlines -- often commenters will even talk about how weird the headline is. I can’t tell if the posters are actually bots, or if they are content farmers from certain countries. (The odd phrasing may sound natural in their language.)

Another tactic is to post an obviously incorrect headline to draw engagement, like mis-identifying a picture of the Empire State Building as Chicago.

Both of these happen frequently with image posts.

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The CPI is a key economic indicator. It’s unlikely that banks and markets would tolerate that kind of meddling.

But, if the CPI was changed for political reasons, there are other similar stats.

In plain language: Wall Street can make or lose billions of dollars based on correctly/incorrectly forecasting this stat, so you can bet your ass they have accurate data. Some of it is private; some is available to paying customers. Even if the data is not public, it is often publicly characterized, for example, in economic forecasts and in publications like The Economist.

Some examples of alternative CPI sources are: PriceStats and The Economist’s Intelligence Unit. Both require paid access.

Be aware that freely-available stats may be published with political agendas, by Fox News conspiracy theorists, etc.

That’s the Consumer Price Index.

There’s also the related Producer Price Index which unfortunately does not include tariffs but will be interesting to watch.

Some cars use laminated glass side windows that can’t be broken by those tools.

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/verify/laminated-glass-breaking-window-car-tool-does-it-work/67-86da1b5e-e36e-4c61-a003-e52e9cd8e89e

Apple has not made the necessary APIs available. Only those two apps have animated icons. They’re made by Apple and so they are able to use the private APIs needed to do it.

Or they changed the headline and due to caches CDNs or other reasons you didn’t get the newer one.

archive.today has your original headline cached.

Thanks for posting. While it’s a needlessly provocative headline, if that’s what the article headline was, then that is what the Lemmy one should be.

That is odd. It’s not what I see:

A very poor Lemmy article headline. The linked article says “alleged” and clearly there were multiple factors involved.

Very few people will be able to use it: only iPhone 15 Pro and higher. Most users won’t have a capable phone until their next upgrade in 1-3 years.

Hopefully by then they’ve caught up to where Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta are today.

Inflation has been falling for a couple years and is fairly low right now, though not as low as it was back when interest rates were zero.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthly-inflation-rate-in-the-us/

The dollar has been fairly strong in recent years.

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy/charts

Inflation in 2022 was likely due to price gouging with companies like Exxon Mobil reporting record or near-record profits at that time.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-profit

By late 2022, companies had jacked up prices high enough that the demand curve had likely reached the “crossover” point. Since then prices and inflation have been falling back to normal.

I have used the Excel/Word/Keynote formats with iWork and it’s okay. MS Office is the de-facto standard format and recognized by Google Docs, OpenOffice, and of course MS Office.

I don’t think it’s a truly open format like ODF, but you can be sure it’ll be recognized everywhere for a long time.

Plenty of adblocker extensions on iOS Safari.

For YouTube, I’d recommend Vinegar, although the more general adblockers will also work.

Arctic has keyword filtering.