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Still not usable in Germany. I don't get it, when will companies realize there's a huge market for content in Germany (and presumable other EU countries) even i
by minxomat 6y ago
Still not usable in Germany. I don't get it, when will companies realize there's a huge market for content in Germany (and presumable other EU countries) even if it's not translated.
- leokennis 6y agoYep. Especially Apple sucks at this. Is English fitness instruction worse than <local language> instruction? Yes. Is it better than nothing at all? Of course...
- ska 6y agoAre there legal constraints on this? Some countries labeling laws etc. make it hard-to-impossible to release English only.
- xiphias2 6y agoUsually user manuals have to be translated, but not the content. Translating the UI would be quite cheaper for Apple than making new films for example.
- ska 6y agoThis is what I'm wondering about - I'm not sure what the threshold is for "this is too much of a pain in the ass, not going to bother", but I don't know this space. In general people who haven't done it seem to really underestimate the work in releasing a product in different countries. Especially with software, it seems like you don't have to do "anything" but there can be a lot of fiddly things even to figure out what the requirements really are.
- xiphias2 6y agoApple makes it really hard to buy some of its products outside the US legally. M1 Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM was not available in Costa Rica, so I tried to order it from the US. All official shops cancelled my purchase, as Apple forbids them to export. They didn’t allow drop shipping either. At the end I had to use EBay, which was much harder (and more expensive) to do.
- ulimn 6y agoSame in Switzerland. I don't even know why they released the Apple One subscription without this.