Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
1–10 of 129 posts
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#2Yeah, Apple is the worst at supporting things outside of California and especially localization.
The last time Apple added support for a new language was iOS 4 and brought the number of supported languages to about 30. In the meantime Android does more than 180, with all sort of region specific dialects.
Even Windows Phone supported 50 while it was around.
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#3The hypothesis never mentioned in the post, is i think that apple fears being kicked out of China for promoting cantonese or regional languages, going against the will of the CCP to make Mandarin the only official chineese language.
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#4Yeah, Apple is the worst at supporting things outside of California and especially localization. The last time Apple added support for a new language was iOS 4 and brought the number of supported languages to about 30. In the meantime Android does more than 180, with all sort of region specific dialects. Even Windows Phone supported 50 while it was around.
The worst?
The hyperbole undercuts any more subtle point you’re trying to make.
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#5Pretty bizarre that stuff like this happens. I'd have thought that Apple would have a native focus group of sorts to check this out. Or failing that just scrape together a couple actual chinese among their 150k employees to get some relevant eyeballs on it.
And not just China...in general. Even small companies (<500) often keep track of their employee's nationality and language proficiency.
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#6> Would you type Russian with an American keyboard?
I thought that was relatively common, just one of those things people are accustomed to.
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#7Is there a way to bypass the medium loginwall?
This is a big annoyance.
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#8This might sound super inflammatory but I honestly believe that Apple scores more social leverage by supporting unused and endangered languages than mainstream Asian languages
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#9Edit 2: ok apparently iOS doesn't support Jyutping out of the box, which seems to be the whole issue here, and with this detail I agree that one shouldn't be more prioritary than having Jyutping first.
> Pinyin is a romanization system designed for Mandarin. Why type Cantonese and Shanghainese in Mandarin Pinyin?
(Edit: yes it might have to do with political pressure as well) I'm assuming if Apple did this (which is not a feature you can "just do") it was something that people do and there's a logic to it.
Yes, maybe Apple is in the wrong, but this sounds like more an overreaction, since you write Cantonese and Mandarin with the same alphabet.
> Would you type Russian with an American keyboard?
Yes, yes I would? If I needed to type one-off words? Though the comparison would be most like, would you type Icelandic or French with an English keyboard? (think of the missing symbols, etc)
(with no love to Medium messing with cut-paste)
Re: Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
#10Yeah, Apple is the worst at supporting things outside of California and especially localization. The last time Apple added support for a new language was iOS 4 and brought the number of supported languages to about 30. In the meantime Android does more than 180, with all sort of region specific dialects. Even Windows Phone supported 50 while it was around.
The worst? The hyperbole undercuts any more subtle point you’re trying to make.
It is the worst among the big tech giants, no hyperbole there.