Mastodawn

Set your iPhone language to “English (Australia)” and then try to type some words.

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Those are American spellings.

For a company that obsessively auto capitalizes (argh capitalises) words like “FaceTime” and “Apple”, it’s hard to see this as unintentional. They employ many experts in language and internationalisation.

Someone, somewhere at Apple made a conscious decision to push Australian language more towards the US. They’re culture hacking us.

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Daniel M Karlsson

@mnot I recently received some input I enjoyed on a similar question. I was firmly in the "all actions performed with intent and malice" camp. Then the person I discussed this with offered the counter argument "laziness" as all the more likely because generally doing anything with intent, and with malice specifically, requires effort. It is much easier to just not think about stuff and do the least amount of work. This made a lot of sense to me and I believe my default position has now shifted.