New internationalism
November 20th, 2008
Yesterday, London’s Telegraph carried a piece about how iPhone’s new voice-recognising Googling tool fails to recognise British accents. Then today, its antipodean and tabloidal namesake tells us that the iPhone gets confused by Australian accents.
I bet the same thing is happening across the world: every paper puts a local spin on what is really the same story (“iPhone’s new voice-recognising Googling tool is crap”). Just imagine it:
“US English accent confuses iPhone” — the Seattle Bugle.
“Vaticano Latin too much for iPhone – Cardinal warns against playing God” — the Vatican City Bull.
“iPhone refuses to understand Korean – Comrade Kim Jung-il denounces evil imperialist plot.” — the Pyongyang Times.
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