> I suspect the idea that a person speaks more than one language is absent in US silicon valley.
Which has been baffling to me considering how many foreigners work at these companies.
Which has been baffling to me considering how many foreigners work at these companies.
It's the idea that the user has a preference for something, and it applies always and everywhere, even when it's not applicable.
If only they respected my system language. All my language settings are set to English, yet I routinely get autotranslated crap to my native language.
But they don't make those decisions. It's a UX thing, which means that in practice whoever is in charge of "driving up the numbers" is going to be making the decision; the engineers just get to cuss while implementing it.