I doubt it but i'll update you once I got mine.... I think based on the wifi version, they do have traditional support for read but as far as writing, you can't write in trad...
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I doubt it but i'll update you once I got mine.... I think based on the wifi version, they do have traditional support for read but as far as writing, you can't write in trad...
By "dropped" you mean the iPad OS used to support traditional Chinese but now it doesn't? It will. The iPhone/touch support it and there's no way Apple will ignore the HK/Macau and Taiwan markets, not to mention huge Chinese communities in SE Asia.
By the way, Pinyin is a romanization system for standard Mandarin (汉语 / 漢語) and is used in both traditional and simplified-using countries.
By the way, Pinyin is a romanization system for standard Mandarin (汉语 / 漢語) and is used in both traditional and simplified-using countries.
Dropped, as in the OS it uses is based on the iPhone OS, which has it. I hope they do soon, perhaps with OS 4. I don't know how many sales they lost; though I can tell you one they lost. Seems kind of insulting giving someone from Taiwan a device that can only do simplified.
By the way, its not in the 3G version, I just checked.
The silver lining is that they still support read/view traditional chinese. I really don't want to change almost all my songs information to simplified
Actually, it does not make sense even if iPad is a US-only product. There are plenty of Chinese Americans, my families and friends for example, who need traditional Chinese support. We have one iPad now. We will hold off buying iPads for our kids or recommending it to our friends until there is traditional Chinese support.
After reading some of the posts here, I am thinking we need to hold off upgrade to new iPhones til we know for sure the new iPhone will have traditional Chinese support. No reason to replace my current iPhone to lose the traditional Chinese support no matter what new features they throw at me.
Make sure you email Apple about this. While you do that, go to the iPhone forums for the iPhoneOS 4.0 dev threads and ask people who do have the betas if there are still traditional Chinese support.
Comparing the market in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan is a very small market for Apple.
Apple have sold 1 million iPad, I guess at least 300,000 are sold to China! A small shop in China told me that they can sell 200 iPad per day!
Dude, how do they get 300,000 in the first place? I fail to see how that works and doubt it. I believe less than 50,000 tops.
Apple has a very strict policy on this, are you telling me 300,000 Americans sold their second unit to Chinese importers? Just hard to believe.
Of course, that excludes us stupid second and third generation Chinese Americans.
I guess you have never been to China before
They are selling 4800CNY for a 16G WiFi version, and that means 700USD! How much profit they can make?
Money talks
And I'm guessing your guess is wildly optimistic. You're claiming nearly 1/3 of iPads sold ended up in the China through the gray market? No. While plenty could afford to buy one and surely will at some point, most Chinese have more pressing concerns.
I'm curious as to how you came by that figure 300,000 units as I've only seen 1 iPad so far in Shanghai, the richest city in the mainland. And none of the big electronics markets here, like Mei Luo Cheng, have them yet. Unless you mean the cheap knockoffs running Windows 7 that popped up about a week after the iPad's release?
Why not do a simple search in taobao.com and see how many iPad are selling in there?
Also, I am trading electronic products in and out China. I am having at least 20 enquiries everyday and asking for importing iPad to China!
300,000 is a very very very small amount for the China market!
It's a long shot I know but I was so disappointed that there was no traditional Chinese input that I sent Steve Jobs asking when it will be put in. I got the ipad for my mom after telling her how great it was. She had become so used to using my mbp to write chinese on the trackpad that I couldn't get it away from her. I'm thinking about returning it but I'm afraid they'll charge a restocking fee.
What will doing a Taobao search prove? That the hottest electronic device on the market is in demand in China? No s**t.
Just because Chinese buy 300,000 山寨 knockoffs a day doesn't mean the supply of iPads is there. Demand does not equal supply. But since you seem so sure, why not provide some actual evidence to support your claim?
It seems to me that you are making this discussion rather personal. What are you trying to prove?
Can you see I am making a guess so I said "I guess" in my reply?
If you want me to prove it, give me 300,000 iPad in China and I can sell it all within 48 hours, in a town only, not even national wide. Want to bet?
Again, read my post and those of others. Read S-L-O-W-L-Y and sound out the big words so you understand. DEMAND does not equal SUPPLY. Read it and repeat. Whether or not you could sell 6 billion iPads/hr in China is irrelevant. The supply side says you won't, because you can't get them.
Still want to argue the point?
Possibly the most interesting piece of data from Yahoo's analysis is the observation that approximately of 10% of users are coming from outside the United States. Given that the iPad has only been made available in the U.S. and that Apple has taken steps such as limiting per-person orders and cutting off third-party services facilitating international orders, it appears that a relatively significant percentage of iPads are still making it out of the United States.
During the measurement period, the iPad has only been available for purchase in the U.S. market; however, we observe approximately 10% of IP traffic coming from Europe and Asia Pacific. Specifically, the U.K., France, and Germany are the top countries in Europe, and Taiwan and Hong Kong make up the most traffic in Asia Pacific.
10% of 1 million is 100,000. The research states that this is spread mostly around 5 countries, only two of which are Asian, NEITHER of which are mainland China.
Not only was your guess wrong, it was spectacularly wrong. Give it a rest will you?
Doubt Apple will drop support for traditional Chinese and other missing languages. iPad's iPhone OS is slightly different than what's in the current iPhone/iPod touch, it's much more logical to say that the missing language support will be incorporated in the next update, probably free as well.
If you look at the next batch of countries that will receive official iPad release, you'll notice both Hong Kong and Taiwan are included, but not China. That's a pretty big hint right there.
I showed my iPad to my Taiwanese buddy, and he absolutely love it, and planning to get one himself, fully aware of the lack in traditional Chinese support, not feeling insulted at all. So unless your friend is very sensitive in political issues, or she's going to write a lot, get one for her. iPad is awesome.
If you look at the next batch of countries that will receive official iPad release, you'll notice both Hong Kong and Taiwan are included, but not China. That's a pretty big hint right there.
I showed my iPad to my Taiwanese buddy, and he absolutely love it, and planning to get one himself, fully aware of the lack in traditional Chinese support, not feeling insulted at all. So unless your friend is very sensitive in political issues, or she's going to write a lot, get one for her. iPad is awesome.
I showed my iPad to my Taiwanese buddy, and he absolutely love it, and planning to get one himself, fully aware of the lack in traditional Chinese support, not feeling insulted at all. So unless your friend is very sensitive in political issues, or she's going to write a lot, get one for her. iPad is awesome.
Agreed, and not to mention you still can read traditional which fits right in the main purpose of an iPad, to "consume" as opposed to "create".
Pretty sure in the next update they will include the traditional writing support when the device is released in HK
In case you haven't noticed, the iPad currently only supports 9 languages while the iPhone and iPod touch support 30 (by support I mean typing with a keyboard, you can read website in all of these languages). Apple will obviously not give up a large portion of its market for no reason, especially since they created the translations for the iPhone OS. Just wait for updates.
I showed my iPad to my Taiwanese buddy, and he absolutely love it, and planning to get one himself, fully aware of the lack in traditional Chinese support, not feeling insulted at all. So unless your friend is very sensitive in political issues, or she's going to write a lot, get one for her. iPad is awesome.
She likes the traditional writing input on the iPhone. When she tried the simplified input panel to write traditional characters, hoping they would be close enough, it could not pick them up.
