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by nottorp 486 days ago
And other idiots that live in continent sized countries and don't realize that in Europe it's very easy to cross borders.

Sony, I'm looking at you...

Hey, did you know that Apple discovered that they can allow you to select multiple languages simultaneously for the spell checker? When? In iOS 18...

Like, for example, Belgium hasn't existed since iOS 1 (they use at least 3 languages currently there, as far as I know).
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OptionOfT 486 days ago
Belgian born and raised. I had 3 keyboards on my phone, all QWERTY (I can't stand AZERTY) but with different spell checks (Dutch, French & English)

When iOS 18 came out with this feature I turned it off, because it's not smart enough to infer context (at least when I used it, maybe it got better?), and messed up autocorrects.

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nottorp 486 days ago
I just use Romanian and English. Sometimes in the same phrase. Eventually it gave up and seemed to adapt enough to what i tend to type to not annoy me every time I send a message.

But then, that was the behaviour even before iOS 18 when I had two keyboards installed. It just took it longer to give up and accept both languages on both keyboards :)

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genewitch 485 days ago
Sony is a Japanese company and I've always thought of japan as a relatively small country. Maybe I'm wrong though.
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nottorp 485 days ago
Japan isn't that small (especially population wise) and besides when the playstation comes in the news there's an english sounding name attached to them.

Also even without the anglosphere management they're an island and crossing a border is ... complex ... for them :)

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genewitch 485 days ago
it's 4% the size of the US' land area. That's "small" to me.

"oh but genewitch the US is a huge country, you can't compare!"

i know. i wish people would remember that when discussing "policy."

edit: per the OP the EU is 50% the size of the US, in land area. So even put in that perspective, i don't consider Japan to be a "large" country. Yes, their population density is crazytown but "continent sized countries" japan is not a member of that set.

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nottorp 484 days ago
Nitpicking. It's an island. And either Sony Japan or their english speaking CEOs haven't noticed that the EU has disabled borders between all those tiny (or not so tiny to allow for more nitpicking) countries and it's customer hostile to have content restrictions based on those borders.

You probably don't even realize that PSN accounts are tied to countries and Sony does not allow changing country because of "regional rights". Or more because of laziness and/or incompetence, since 99% of titles are available worldwide anyway.

Wouldn't be much of a problem but they think they're some government and only allow paying them with cards based in the country's account... and of course with grey market prepaid cards from the right country, beause who's going to take that seriously?

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