I'm not sure what people mean by Apple products not being "fully localized." When I look in System Preferences on my Mac there is Chinese language, dates, times, currency and keyboards. And the iPhone even lets you draw Chinese characters on the screen with your finger.
Lenovo sucks! The IBM thinkpad was an awesomely built system. But when Lenovo bought it they totally screwed it up.
Anyway!!!!!!
Now watch for Apple's stock to sore to close to $400.00 especially with iad on the iphone and soon the ipad.
Sorry Google! Your a** is grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lenovo did not screw up with gthe actualy design and fuctionality of thinkpads, instead they got ideapads that sucked a** and are crappier then cheap Dells
if you choose to argue about thing, i have a Wds700, a Thinkpad T61 and a new MBP 15'
also lenovo still makes the same awsome trackpads that IMB did (they actually work)
I'm not sure what people mean by Apple products not being "fully localized." When I look in System Preferences on my Mac there is Chinese language, dates, times, currency and keyboards. And the iPhone even lets you draw Chinese characters on the screen with your finger.
I don't know if "localized" is the correct term, but more that they weren't really designed with the chinese market in mind.
For example, you said that the iPhone lets you draw chinese characters on the screen with your finger. Let me just say that that implementation is horrible. A fat finger on a small screen doesn't give you the precision needed to input some of the more complex characters. This is one area where a capacitive touchscreen + lack of stylus actually hurts them. It doesn't help that the software recognition wasn't that great either.
Personal story: about a year ago I was in hong kong with some friends. We were attempting to look up something online while waiting for a taxi. My friend attempted to enter a chinese character on his iphone 11 times with no success, even writing as neatly as possible with his finger. We eventually had to turn to a nokia 5800 with a stylus to input the necessary text.
Now granted there are other methods to input chinese text (pinyin and wubihua for example), but there are times when just being able to write the character instead of trying to assosciate it with its pinyin and stroke breakdown is orders of magnitude faster. And I hate to say it, but the iPhone handwriting input just pales in comparison to the methods found in some of the nokias and samsungs available there.
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Lenovo sucks! The IBM thinkpad was an awesomely built system. But when Lenovo bought it they totally screwed it up.
Anyway!!!!!!
Now watch for Apple's stock to sore to close to $400.00 especially with iad on the iphone and soon the ipad.
Sorry Google! Your a** is grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lenovo did not screw up with gthe actualy design and fuctionality of thinkpads, instead they got ideapads that sucked a** and are crappier then cheap Dells
if you choose to argue about thing, i have a Wds700, a Thinkpad T61 and a new MBP 15'
also lenovo still makes the same awsome trackpads that IMB did (they actually work)
I'm not sure what people mean by Apple products not being "fully localized." When I look in System Preferences on my Mac there is Chinese language, dates, times, currency and keyboards. And the iPhone even lets you draw Chinese characters on the screen with your finger.
Pics: http://www.maclife.com/article/featu...and_ipod_touch
I don't know if "localized" is the correct term, but more that they weren't really designed with the chinese market in mind.
For example, you said that the iPhone lets you draw chinese characters on the screen with your finger. Let me just say that that implementation is horrible. A fat finger on a small screen doesn't give you the precision needed to input some of the more complex characters. This is one area where a capacitive touchscreen + lack of stylus actually hurts them. It doesn't help that the software recognition wasn't that great either.
Personal story: about a year ago I was in hong kong with some friends. We were attempting to look up something online while waiting for a taxi. My friend attempted to enter a chinese character on his iphone 11 times with no success, even writing as neatly as possible with his finger. We eventually had to turn to a nokia 5800 with a stylus to input the necessary text.
Now granted there are other methods to input chinese text (pinyin and wubihua for example), but there are times when just being able to write the character instead of trying to assosciate it with its pinyin and stroke breakdown is orders of magnitude faster. And I hate to say it, but the iPhone handwriting input just pales in comparison to the methods found in some of the nokias and samsungs available there.