Microsoft removing 27 languages from iOS Outlook

They could have asked the community to volunteer with maintaining the translations. I'm fairly certain there would be people willing to do that for at least some of these languages.

> in order to maintain consistency

Yeah, Microsoft has always been all about consistency.

Seriously though, if it's really about it, then why not include these languages in other apps as well with a community-driven translation?

The likely real reason for the removal of these language versions is that the places where they are used are not major markets for iOS devices. But then it's not like they were either when Outlook for iOS was being released in the end of 2015. And if the iOS and Android apps were consistent internally, then 90% of the translation strings would probably overlap, so the overhead of maintaining the additional translation for the iOS version would be minimal.

There are a lot of comments.

Here are the languages:

Afrikaans Amharic Azerbaijani (Latin) Bosnian Latin Basque Persian Filipino Irish Galician Gujarati Icelandic Kazakh Khmer Lao Lithuanian Latvian Macedonian Malayalam Marathi Norwegian (Nynorsk) Slovenian Albanian Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia) Serbian (Latin, Serbia) Tamil Telugu Urdu

This seems like a bad reason for removing languages.

>The reason given for the impending visit by the Redmond axeman is "in order to maintain consistency across the Microsoft 365 apps for iOS."