Apple’s way of converting currencies
by ingo on Mar.13, 2009, under Apple
I had to do some currency conversions today and I’m usually relying on Apple’s Dashboard Widget “Unit Converter”.
I had to convert British Pounds into US Dollars and got some strange numbers that didn’t sound right. I then made following conversion from US Dollars into US Dollars and got some very interesting results.
Now, Apple claims to get the data from Yahoo Finance although their website shows the real numbers:
I wonder if I’m the only one having that problem. I’m running the latest version of OS X Leopard and have all recent updates installed.
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April 1st, 2009 on 4:28 am
I have the same problem. Completely random numbers in the unit converter…….. Also latest OS X and all updated….