How to set App store Languages?

Perhaps no one has translated that store yet. Is it a new store?

I completely disagree with you. 🙂 The problem has nothing to do with tax laws and vendor licensing, simply the user interface language. The apps are usually multi-lingual or in English, mostly, anyway. On each Mac, the language setting is tailored to the user's needs, not the country where one lives. I am multi-lingual, but I use my computer in English, though I write mostly in Spanish. Tax calculations have nothing to do with the language localization settings and an invoice or factura can still be issued in the lingua franca. It's just a matter of letting the user choose what he feels more comfortable with. Product descriptions in the Mexican store appear in English for some products and Spanish for others.

The world is a globalized place today, unlike years ago. People move around alot and just basing a user interface language on your credit card location is absurd. It should be a simple array based on a user preference... and I am a software and web developer. The fact that Apple stores in some countries appear in multi-languages just proves the fact that this can be done.

hi, im in germany and i just bought an iphone 4 the language for my app store is in german. not sure how to change it.

Bravo Tanzanite!!!! I think you expressed, what most of us feel.

The fact that Apple stores in some countries appear in multi-languages just proves the fact that this can be done.

Please provide us an example of an Apple Store in multiple languages.

Please provide us with a link to a store where the user can change the store's language presented at will.

The Mexican MAS has app descriptions in English because the developer has not provided Apple with copy in Spanish. That is a lazy developer, not a benefit. Those in Mexico who cannot understand English are not being shown any respect by developers who want to sell us their product but do not respect our money enough to use a bit of it to have their material translated.

I know of only one Apple Store in two languages, the Canadian Apple online store. And it is actually two separate stores; one in Canadian English and the other in Canadian French. You cannot change the language, you have to change stores, just like you change from the US store to the Mexican store, you change from the Candian English store to the Canadian French store.

An iTunes store article which lists some multiple language stores:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2242

As for calling them lazy developers, I suppose you know dozens of small developers that have the resources to do their descriptions in English, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, Polish, French, Hungarian, Turkish... shall I go on? I guess we should only have a handful of locally done apps because developers cannot speak hundreds of languages or have the resourses of a big multi-national, right? It has nothing to do with having to speak Spanish if you live in Mexico. Such statements strike overly-sensitive local nationalistic chords. I guess, then, that developers should only sell software in countries where they speak the language, and customers who might be retired people should also refrain from purchasing because they might not have the mental capacity to learn new languages.

I digress, if your computer will support a language, your app store should support the same one. In the 21st century, it's just too easy to do it, and too inconsiderate in the global village to rely on nationalistic pride to dictate language in electronic media. All the Apple app stores are from Apple, and the interface languages already exist. Is it really too much to ask to use the computer's language settings instead of the language your credit card bill comes in? This is NOT rocket science; it's common sense and courtesy to the end user.

If the developers do not provide Apple with translated copy, then I wonder who is supposed to do it? The Mac does not translate on the fly. There are gigabites of HDD space taken up by the language resources on a Mac. Each app has its own resouces in its app bundle. If the language resource is not there, then an app will not be in the language for which the Mac is configured in the System Preferences. The Mac has been able to slowly expand its available languages because Apple has slowly added the resources for those languages.

I see nothing nationalistic about expecting developers to provide not only the copy describing their product, but the product itself with the resources for Spanish. We in Mexico are not the only folks around here who speak Spanish. And that is the only way that there will ever be multi-language Apple Stores, for the developers to provide Apple the language resources for their app.

Dah•veed wrote:

That is a lazy developer, not a benefit.

Fully agree here. This is the result of lazy Apple Appstore developers. I am located in Sweden, but prefer all my computer related work to be in English (and no, English is not my native language, that is Dutch). So I have my MacBook set to English, which works fine. As a result, the menus, categories, etc, of the AppStore application on the Mac are in English, so apparently Apple does not see any problems with doing that. But the content of the store is in Swedish, and I see only the comments given by Swedes. Now why is that? It has nothing to do with the local legal system, etc, it is just an oversight of the Apple developers.

The UI of the iPhone suffers from the same problem, by the way.

baraupp wrote:

I am located in Sweden, but prefer all my computer related work to be in English (and no, English is not my native language, that is Dutch). So I have my MacBook set to English, which works fine. As a result, the menus, categories, etc, of the AppStore application on the Mac are in English, so apparently Apple does not see any problems with doing that. But the content of the store is in Swedish, and I see only the comments given by Swedes.

Myself and many users, use the Apple Appstore this way. Its completely impractical to jump from store to store just to read the users comments and return to your designated store.

I'm from Mexico and can't understand why Dah•veed keeps arguing, whatever he is arguing. I think all we want is for apple to take the steps towards a more user friendly apple store. Hope we see it in the future.

Check the date stamps genius, I stopped discussing anything with anyone here over a month ago. You are digging up an old thread that was buried pages back in this forum.

Right.... I can see that. LOL

Just amazing Apple has not reacted on this one yet, after all these complaints! Why can we have English language for AppStore in Switzerland (no native language there either) and not in Germany, where a few English speaking people happen to live as well. Great to download German-dubbed movies from iTunes :-((

So Is anyone from Apple viewing this type of posts? Just to say we can't do anything about it for the moment, we'll look into it, or whatever?

This is a user forum. Apple is not here. Apple does not post comments here.