There ARE other countries you know!

[Regulus67]

The complaint even looks ridiculous to me.

Only 10% of iPhone users reside in the US, yet it seems that 90% of the News items are about the US. What arrogance, what American Exceptionalism!

Come on MacForums, stop this America First policy and start reporting for the 90% of iPhone users outside the US. After all, Apple serves the rest of the world ... why don't you?

How many are fluent in English AND read macrumors forum of said iPhone users outside the US???

Honestly, how many of us that are europeans even speak another European language, besides our own?
I speak Norwegian, Swedish and English fluently, and some German. And I can decipher some Dutch.
Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish ... not to mention Finnish, or Hungarian, are some of the languages I do not understand at all.

I appreciate English speaking forums. And macrumors is the best for Apple products 👍
The Swedish speaking forum is a joke. Although I suspect most use facebook for localised discussions.

 

[theluggage]

I appreciate English speaking forums.

The original comment had nothing to do with language.
It was about a headline citing statistics gathered from the US market as if they applied to the whole world. It would still have the same problem had it been written in Klingon.

 

[Euroamerican]

So, Macrumours it is then?

 

[rehkram]

The headline is misleading. This could be fixed with the addition of 2 capital letters and a space. BTW, I currently live in the US. So the question for the article author, was it a) an omission, b) clickbait to get more people to read it, or c) lack of any international travel experience on your part?

 

[John-F]

I live in the US but have travelled to Europe and speak some of their languages. I can't understand why those in the UK drive on the wrong side of the road, why their cars have the steering wheel on the wrong side, why they spell with extraneous u as in rumour or colour, why they use an s instead of the normal z, as in realise. Heck, even my spell check doesn't like it. But not to pick on only on the Brits, I wonder why Germans like to put their verbs at the end of the sentence. Makes no sense at all. [only joking - no intent to offend]

 

[theluggage]

I can't understand why those in the UK drive on the wrong side of the road

It makes sense when your steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car.

why their cars have the steering wheel on the wrong side

It makes sense when you drive on the wrong side of the road.

All perfectly logical

 

[daabido]

I speak Australian, but I have trained myself to speak American over the years, and can even understand people from England. New Zealand is still a mystery to me though.

 

[JohnnyGo]

I speak Australian, but I have trained myself to speak American over the years, and can even understand people from England. New Zealand is still a mystery to me though.

Have you been able to talk to the indigenous people in the South Island ??? You seem to be a polyglot: 3 languages in one sentence !