Why Siri Support tied to Store Region

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Why Siri Support tied to Store Region

OK. I got this new Apple TV in Netherlands. I speak English perfectly and everything. In fact I am an expat in Netherlands and I cannot speak any Dutch at all.

Now that I get my salary here I do not have a credit card in US of course, so I have to change my store region to Netherlands in order to buy anything.

My Apple TV region and language is set to US English of course.

Question is,

Why do you require store language to set to one of the supported countries? It is an issue why language I naturally use, right? Apple gave me a dilemma here, on one hand I was restricted to which store to use because Apple check the region that issued the credit card; on the other hand Apple restricted that if I live on Moon, I have to speak Moonish?

Why? How should I solve this?

Apple TV, tvOS 10

Posted on Sep 14, 2016 5:05 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 14, 2016 5:39 AM in response to Vivelesmorts

Siri on the Apple TV is trained differently to siri on your phone, it needs to understand the differences between film titles and the like which don't follow the same rules as spoken sentences, obviously it therefor needs to be tied to the store and not just a central engine.

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Answer 2

Vivelesmorts Author

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Sep 14, 2016 6:05 AM in response to Winston Churchill

Thanks for the reply. I understand if searching in the store it needs to understand the store's language and on apple tv apple indeed need to promote store usage.

But I (and I think many others as well) mainly use apple tv for Netflix, Hulu etc. We already have subscriptions for English TV/movies and just in the search box (that Siri keys brings up), voice input a few keywords is the life saver.

From technical point of view, I think it is disabled intentionally or unexpectedly as a side effect. At lease a revisit of design is needed.

Regards

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Answer 3

Sep 14, 2016 6:10 AM in response to Vivelesmorts

You can submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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