This should be expected. There was a surge when the Covid lockdowns hit, and now people don't feel the need to replace those relatively new tools.

No. Raising walls is the simplest stage of construction.

It would be nice to not be stressed at the surgeons knowing the surgeons aren’t stressed.

What you wrote has nothing to do with economics. If supply increases, prices will decrease. Homes are not an inelastic commodity.

When phones started to become phablet sized tiles I just kind of gave up on tablets all together. I do miss my small smartphone though.

These won’t get DRB approval in most places. If they do, a bunch of unnecessary finishes will be required and the cost will be only slightly cheaper. Also how do you expand/remodel/update these?

I cannot really suggest for someone to buy a Chromebook anymore after Google end of lifed a stack of them I had collected for my family. We're just switching to Linux for everyone instead of the Google provided Chromebook option from now on.

You are further from the year 2000 than you were in 1980.

Ouch.

Yeah, that's not how it works...In the housing industry.

They aren't selling houses... they are selling the dream of sucking you for 30 years on a mortgage.

No, not in the US at least where building materials are cheap AF.

Problem is entities buying up housing and enjoying a captured market to continue raising prices.

If there were laws preventing monopolization/oligopolization of housing, it would be quite affordable. Something like adding an additional tax each time you acquire another house, I think Ireland does similar?

Supply and demand. If there is no demand, supply will have to make that demand. It will only be a matter of time until prices drop to offload stock. That's all assuming this article is true can never really tell anymore.

If iPad sales increase, it is probably because Apple is ending support for the iPod Touch which was used by a TON of companies for mobile PoS, inventory management/bar code scanners…etc.

Companies could use really reliable Apple hardware and use their own software rather than being forced to use 3rd party software and linking it in to their own internal system which many companies didn’t allow. If you used their hardware, you HAD to use their software.

ipads are a great notebook replacement. Saves weight too.

Exactly. A tablet is a disposable income extra.

Makes sense to me.

If they can start pumping out houses quicker, supply would finally reach demand and prices will decrease.

You can’t download software that isn’t owned by google, that’s the whole point of a chrome book. It’s like their own little MacBook.

I’ve spent about 2 years with a Microsoft Surface Go 2. I’ve loved it and it was great for note taking in college and doing my Spanish lessons that I’m currently taking.

My Go 2 has the intel pentium chip with eMMC storage. And at $400, the performance just isn’t great. It’s fine for surfing the web and watching movies, but it isn’t fast by any means. It is slow to open webpages, slow on Microsoft office, and drawboard PDF is so poorly optimized. And upgrading to the i3 chip kills battery life.

From this, I’ve come to realize that basically you need to buy an iPad or the high end Surface or Samsung to get any decent performance and good storage and those aren’t exactly cheap. (I’m a windows PC guy, but iOS is far superior for tablets)

That just isn’t feasible for most people, let alone when inflation is what it is right now. I’ll probably be switching to an iPad Air in 2 years or so and don’t see myself purchasing another “budget” tablet.

No, Schools had to buy them during COVID because they HAD to provide every kid a laptop for at-home-learning. Now every school has a Chromebook for every kid. Chromebooks in theory don’t really go “obsolete” quickly barring major changes to ChromeOS. So now IT departments just have to deal with churn for replacements, but they aren’t going to buy new. They are going to ship their broken units out and get refurbished units back in a cycle.

But how many companies offer tgese phones? I don't remember seeing Sony phones as an option. Last time I was shopping for a phone.

Even if it did, landlords and capitalism generally will drive prices to the pain point again.

This isn't the solution.

Something like ICFs will be. (Though not current ICFs themselves.)

The REAL advance will be in cheaper easier more customized concrete form technology, or replacement of the concrete with some other pourable material.

What the hell are you smoking?

Sudden Valley

the problem lies in the R-1 zoning