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.

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.

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Your wish is granted.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/31/investing/boeings-losses-new-ceo/index.html

As announced earlier key board members are also resigning.

Have they rotated the deck chairs on the Titanic, or is this a meaningful change?

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The one that’s not shown: Standalone Passwords app

Imagine the bed is a clock. The 12 o’clock position is at the head — I don’t think anything else makes sense. That makes it unambiguous.

The positions are 3 o’clock and 9 o’clock.

Ad-based apps on your phone.

It’s been done already, you say? Not like this: the front-facing camera is used to detect eye gaze. A counter on the screen starts at 30 seconds and only counts down while you are looking at the screen. If you look away, the counter, and the ad, pauses. The app doesn’t continue until you’ve watched the entire ad.

It was added in January 2004 and is a reference to the quote in Spider Man.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/12522

Arctic is a nice native iOS app that’s frequently updated. It’s in the App Store and a TestFlight is available in the [email protected] community.

There’s a great community called The Lyrics Game - [email protected] - where people post AI art of song lyrics and others try to guess the song.

This would have worked great! I bet it would have been guessed quickly as “Fireflies” is frequently guessed (but to my knowledge hasn’t been one of the songs yet).

When the mezcal worm grows up

Unfortunately, Apple has the resources, both legal and financial, to tie that up in the EU courts for decades.

Who would’ve thought? This isn’t going to fly with the EU.

Article 5.3 of the Digital Markets Act (DMA): “The gatekeeper shall not prevent business users from offering the same products or services to end users through third-party online intermediation services or through their own direct online sales channel at prices or conditions that are different from those offered through the online intermediation services of the gatekeeper.”

Apple has an annual legal budget of approximately infinity dollars. I assure you they are aware of this and they believe they are in compliance, even if just barely.

If challenged, they will have no problem fighting it — they have nearly as much cash on hand as the entire EU budget.

I hope the EU challenges this, and I hope the EU wins, but Apple isn’t going to be surprised by whatever happens.

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This does read very much like AI-generated content. For example, here’s what Bard generated as an answer to this question.

It’s the list-based approach, the hyperbole, the too-many adjectives, the writing style that sounds like SEO that makes it sound like AI.

I don’t see an article link.

They’re just repackaging AltaVista results.

It keeps clearing my list of blocked instances. I’m on the TestFlight beta so maybe it’s a bug.