What I would really like Apple to push for 10.3 is to, at least, try to push its international strategies and decentralize the OS and its gadgets so specifically around the US.
I guess US natives do not realize how lots of features are unavailable to non-US and non-English speaking users.
Here is a list of the things that come to my mind:
1) Sherlock channels are most aimed at US citizens: eBay only looks in products available to US, while there are many many eBays out there which can be used with the same login/password (.co.uk, .de, .it, .fr, es.ebay.com...); flights are also limited to US customers; English-only dictionary; leaving aside the channels that simply do not appear in international OSs, like news, stock, yellow pages, movies... because of their little use. Most of this channels' info is provided to Apple through third parties, and there are such specialized parties retrieving local info in many other countries. Why does Apple Spain, for instance, do not have any sort of strategy to make an agreement with the Spanish Yellow Pages?
2) iPhoto and its online professional printing (and punctual offers of free prints like when joining .mac) and photo book authoring.
3) Inkwell and its poor non-English recognition of hand writing because it only comes with an English dictionary for common gestures. You can of course train it, but it is much more exhausting for any non-English speaking person, and thus rarely used from a beginning.
4) Lack of non-English text-to-speak, whereas OS 9 had some other languages (well, at least mexican Spanish, that while not quite like Spaniard, it was better than what we have now, nothing).
5) Lack of non-English speech recognition.
6) Disrepect of OS language preference in permanent menues (such as the Apple) when using an English-only application, such as Safari.
8) International iTunes Music Store. (While I do know Apple is working on that, the negotiations with non-US firms seems to have began after the iTMS launched, while negotiations with US firms probably started quite before than three months ago).
10) Uncomplete localizations of Applications's names bundled with the OS. Most notable is the Utilities folder (launching "Apple System Profiler" will open up an application, the application menu of which will read, in an Spanish OS, "Perfil del Sistema Apple"; if Netinfo manager icon appears as "Gestor de NetInfo", why does Apple System profiler stay in English?)
9) Lack of non-English terminal commands. (Jus kidding!)
I guess US natives do not realize how lots of features are unavailable to non-US and non-English speaking users.
Here is a list of the things that come to my mind:
1) Sherlock channels are most aimed at US citizens: eBay only looks in products available to US, while there are many many eBays out there which can be used with the same login/password (.co.uk, .de, .it, .fr, es.ebay.com...); flights are also limited to US customers; English-only dictionary; leaving aside the channels that simply do not appear in international OSs, like news, stock, yellow pages, movies... because of their little use. Most of this channels' info is provided to Apple through third parties, and there are such specialized parties retrieving local info in many other countries. Why does Apple Spain, for instance, do not have any sort of strategy to make an agreement with the Spanish Yellow Pages?
2) iPhoto and its online professional printing (and punctual offers of free prints like when joining .mac) and photo book authoring.
3) Inkwell and its poor non-English recognition of hand writing because it only comes with an English dictionary for common gestures. You can of course train it, but it is much more exhausting for any non-English speaking person, and thus rarely used from a beginning.
4) Lack of non-English text-to-speak, whereas OS 9 had some other languages (well, at least mexican Spanish, that while not quite like Spaniard, it was better than what we have now, nothing).
5) Lack of non-English speech recognition.
6) Disrepect of OS language preference in permanent menues (such as the Apple) when using an English-only application, such as Safari.
8) International iTunes Music Store. (While I do know Apple is working on that, the negotiations with non-US firms seems to have began after the iTMS launched, while negotiations with US firms probably started quite before than three months ago).
10) Uncomplete localizations of Applications's names bundled with the OS. Most notable is the Utilities folder (launching "Apple System Profiler" will open up an application, the application menu of which will read, in an Spanish OS, "Perfil del Sistema Apple"; if Netinfo manager icon appears as "Gestor de NetInfo", why does Apple System profiler stay in English?)
9) Lack of non-English terminal commands. (Jus kidding!)
