On 4 Jun 2012, at 9:44 AM, Marc Respass wrote:
> As for App Store and iTunes, on iOS 5.1.1 (and as long as I can remember),
> those apps appear on my phone in Spanish. If I switch my language to English,
> they will be in English. They don't change depending on where I am and I
> completely agr
Hi John,
I am American but I've been studying Spanish for years so I run my Macs and
iDevices in Spanish but everything else is American (dates, punctuation, etc.).
It really sticks out (in a bad way) when an app is partially localized or,
based on my language setting, makes assumptions other t
Am 03.06.2012 um 13:24 schrieb John Tall:
> a user in Germany will get the entire apps in German even if
> the rest of the phone is configured to run in English.
This is not true as far as my iOS devices are concerned. I can switch it to any
language and the next app start will show the app in
The standard way to localize an app is based on the user's preferred language.
(on mac os x, the preferred language order of priority/availability )
Above and beyond that, you might have some case where your app has a reason to
enable setting the preferred language at the app preferences level, o
I believe AppStore's behavior is wrong and against Apple's own guidelines, that
clearly state, that user's preferences come always first.
My colleagues, friends, and I filed countless radars about iTunes and
AppStore...
cheers
g.
On Jun 3, 2012, at 1:24 PM, John Tall wrote:
> An obvious scen
App Store is simply a starting point...
On launch we adjust our UI based on the user preferences, a Canadian
user can be French Canadian, or if close to the border and commutes,
could choose US English or Canadian ad infinitum... our app
contains all (of our) supported localizations.
Hello.
We currently have an iOS app available in English. We have decided to
localize it into other languages, but first we wanted to look into how
other companies are doing it in order to determine what the best
practices would be.
When we looked at how Apple localizes their apps we found someth
