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Russia mandates locally made apps on mobile devices

April 2, 2021 by John Yunker

What was for many years a threat has now become a reality — a Russian law requiring mobile phone manufacturers to ship with preinstalled Russian-made apps (or allow them to be easily installed). It appears that Apple updated its onboarding …

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Categories Apple, iPhone, Mobile, Russia, Web Globalization

In China, email addresses are irrelevant

July 28, 2020 by John Yunker

Great article by the BBC about email vs. mobile apps in China — and why email is losing out to the most popular apps. It’s important for Westerners such as myself to remember that most of the world did not …

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Categories China, Culture, Domain names, Web Globalization

In search of a better translation icon

July 17, 2015 by John Yunker

A few years ago I wrote about the translation icon and its many variations at that point in time. I thought now would be a good time to revisit this icon. Let’s start with the Google Translate. This icon has not changed …

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Categories Global By Design, Google, Languages, Machine Translation, Microsoft, Translation

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