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by akmarinov 2127 days ago
No, thanks.

Apple is notoriously horrible when it comes to localization: Apple Maps (localization, regional maps, regional traffic data, turn by turn), iOS supported languages, Siri supported languages, their new Apple Translate that only has 7-8 languages, Spotlight suggestions, etc.

They're also very slow to expand their services, I think Apple News still only supports 4 countries.

Just buy DuckDuckGo

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Yeah, as a non US citizen, this annoys me. Every year Apple announce a new cool feature, but I won't be able to use it for years. Like a lot of the Maps features, the News app, the better predictive keyboard, etc.

Apple is the most valuable company in the world, they really have no excuse.

I mean they are doing something right if people are willingly buying their products while fully knowing they are deficient in features.
You can’t compare them to Google, almost everything they do is exclusive to the US. They seriously treat the rest of the world as an afterthought
Yep, they have the Designed for California mindset down.
ddg is 99% bing.
Man that 1% of icing is pretty amazing then.
Do you see large differences between ddg and bing? I get close to the same results on both sites especially for images
That icing is Yandex, so no thank you.
And by icing you mean Yandex, right?