On 4 Jun 2012, at 9:44 AM, Marc Respass wrote:
> As for App Store and iTunes, on iOS 5.1.1 (and as long as I can remember),
> those apps appear on my phone in Spanish. If I switch my language to English,
> they will be in English. They don't change depending on where I am and I
> completely agree that it would be strange (and terrible) if my phone changed
> its language based on where I am. Just imagine flying from Paris to Moscow!
It would be the App Store, not your phone, that changes based on your location.
Apple's problem is that when you're in Moscow, any purchase you make will take
place in Russia, and be subject to Russian law, not French. Developers who do
not want (or are unable) to distribute their apps in Russia rely on the App
Store to prevent such sales, so they need the Russian store to be in control.
If they have provided their own license agreements, they need those EULAs to be
enforceable under Russian law, which (I am sure) requires that the contract be
in Russian. If they don't provide their own EULAs, they have to decide whether
they can live with the default agreement embedded in the iTunes terms and
conditions for Russia; maybe they can't. The same thing applies with how
binding are the claims you make in the App Store description.
Your switch to Spanish, while in the US, changes the App Store language from
en-US to es-US, which is the same legal régime. To you, everything looks as
though it was simply localized to your preference. In that case, Apple can
honor your preference, because the US App Store has a Spanish translation that
conforms to US law.
[This is not legal advice. It is simply my observation of how Apple and my very
large employer treat EULA issues.]
— F
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