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I always wondered how 馬 sounds different than 马.

All jokes aside, anyone have a clue what they mean with Simplified Mandarin? Cantonese ...?
The internet does. Took me about 3 seconds to do a search and get an answer. Here's how to do it:

Open a search engine. I used Bing. Type in "mandarin traditional or simplified". I'm guessing you probably spend more time asking the question vs a quick search. But that's just me.
 
Releases:
iOS 26.1 beta 3 (23B5064e)
iPadOS 26.1 beta 3 (23B5064e)
macOS 26.1 beta 3 (25B5062e)
tvOS 26.1 beta 3 (23J5563d)
visionOS 26.1 beta 3 (23N5033d)
watchOS 26.1 beta 3 (23S5022e)

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Kind of crazy it's the third beta and it's still an e tier build.
 
All jokes aside, anyone have a clue what they mean with Simplified Mandarin? Cantonese ...?
Usually due to an article being written by someone not knowing the correct English terms for the two writing systems and confusing them with the names of the spoken forms and dialects;

It's a common enough mistake that we can skip over the clear error, and guess they actually meant "simplified Chinese" and/or "traditional Chinese"

出入平安
 
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I always wondered how 馬 sounds different than 马.

All jokes aside, anyone have a clue what they mean with Simplified Mandarin? Cantonese ...?
the left one is mardarin (simplified chinese)
the right one is catonese (Traditional chinese)

Both are the same just spoken in different pronouciation. That’s all.
 
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I always wondered how 馬 sounds different than 马.

All jokes aside, anyone have a clue what they mean with Simplified Mandarin? Cantonese ...?
It means a horse given it is of the same Chinese character.

When the lang is set to simplified Chinese, it may assume mainland China accent (putonghua), while in traditional Chinese it may assume Taiwan Chinese accent (mandarin).
 
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People always cry "it's the buggiest release Apple has ever made..." but this time around, those words be TRUTH.

I am kicking myself in the arse for upgrading Mac, iPhone.... watch is maybe the exception - liquid glass actually doesn't suck on it and its kind of better with the changes. But dahumn. I spend my day wanting to throw both my MacBook Pro and iPhone at the wall. Forget the fuggly liquid glass - just slow, glitchy, buggy.... the release feels like an Alpha.
 
This release just trashed my HomeKit lock and garage door opener setups. They are just gone from Home app.
 
Releases:
iOS 26.1 beta 3 (23B5064e)
iPadOS 26.1 beta 3 (23B5064e)
macOS 26.1 beta 3 (25B5062e)
tvOS 26.1 beta 3 (23J5563d)
visionOS 26.1 beta 3 (23N5033d)
watchOS 26.1 beta 3 (23S5022e)

Source
and we have the rc 2 for sequoia and sonoma:

macOS 15.7.2 rc 2 build 24G317

and

macOS 14.8.2 rc 2 build 23J119

there is also homepod beta 3:

audioOS 26.1 beta 3 build 23J5563d
 
Usually due to an article being written by someone not knowing the correct English terms for the two writing systems and confusing them with the names of the spoken forms and dialects;

It's a common enough mistake that we can skip over the clear error, and guess they actually meant "simplified Chinese" and/or "traditional Chinese"

出入平安
It’s like Chinese restaurant for westerners and Chinese restaurants for Chinese I suppose? The latter one being way for complicated gastronomically and will have more "texture" 🖖😎
 
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