Chinese Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Siri may speak and understand Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by March

by Chris Rawson (Feb 8th, 2012)

According to Chinese tech site DoNews (sketchy English translation here), Apple plans on bringing support for Mandarin Chinese to Siri as early as March of this year. Other dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, will remain unsupported for the time being. Support for Japanese and Russian is ...

Foxconn doubles factory size to meet iPhone demand

by Mike Schramm (Dec 27th, 2011)

Chinese manufacturer Foxconn is growing again, with recent reports stating that the company is doubling the size of one of its production lines in order to keep up with production for current and future Apple products. The Foxconn Science Park in Zhengzhou is undergoing a $1.1 billion ...

Chinese App Store customers can now pay with their own currency

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 18th, 2011)

Apple's iTunes Store in China received a major upgrade this week. The store now accepts payment in the local currency, the renminbi (RMB), and lets users replenish their iTunes account using bank cards from over a dozen Chinese banks. Previously, the Chinese iTunes store only accepted US ...

First, fake Apple Stores. Now, fake Steve Jobs biography.

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 19th, 2011)

First fake Apple Stores, now China has fake Steve Jobs biographies. The fake biography's title roughly translates to Steve Jobs Gives 11 Advices To Teenager in English and its author is a man who goes by the name "John Cage." MicGadget says the fake bio first went on sale at Taiwanese ...

Chinese authors to petition Apple to halt book downloads

by Michael Grothaus (Jul 8th, 2011)

A group of Chinese authors is petitioning Apple to halt the distribution of their books through multiple apps in the App Store, according to the 21st Century Herald Tribune (as reported by Reuters). The authors are part of a group called the Writers Rights Alliance, and this isn't the first time ...

Paper iPad 2 sells out in Malaysia for use in afterlife rituals

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2011)

It appears that Apple isn't the only company having trouble keeping up with the huge demand for the iPad 2. Throughout Asia, many ethnic Chinese individuals are celebrating the Qingming Festival. During this festival, living relatives honor their dead ancestors by cleaning their grave sites and ...

Apple reportedly yet to order iPhone 5 parts

by Mike Schramm (Mar 28th, 2011)

If you're excited to buy the iPhone 5 this summer, you might want to relax a bit. Reports from China are saying that Apple hasn't even started securing the parts for a brand new version of the iPhone, which would mean that there's almost no way a new version could be released this year. ...

China gets the iPad

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2010)

As you can see in the video above, China finally got the iPad (officially) this week, and Mac fans there were pretty excited about it. The device went on sale this morning at the Apple Stores in Beijing and Shanghai, and hundreds of people stood in the rain -- one man was there waiting for two ...

OpenFeint coming to Android

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2010)

I've often wondered why, instead of creating their own social gaming platform with Game Center, Apple didn't just swallow up a successful third-party platform like OpenFeint. Now, it seems that Apple may have lost its chance: OpenFeint announced this morning, after another multi-million dollar round ...

Rumor: Chinese manufacturers building cases (with cameras) for new iPod touch, nano

by Mike Schramm (Jul 23rd, 2009)

Here's a story that, strangely, makes sense. Cult of Mac is saying that these cases above are already being made by Chinese manufacturers, in advance of what they call the "worst-kept secret in China": that Apple will be announcing new versions of the iPod touch and the iPod nano in September, ...

iTunes gift cards cracked

by Mike Schramm (Mar 11th, 2009)

This seems like bad news for Apple, to say the least. A few Chinese websites are now selling $200 gift certficates to iTunes for less than a few bucks, which means that it's likely hackers have figured out the algorithm to determine gift codes on Apple's music store. As with most online codes, ...

Apple to include Chinese handwriting recognition in iPhone 2.0

by Cory Bohon (May 5th, 2008)

One of our tipsters, Kenneth, pointed us to a Chinese web page (Google translation) showing what appears to be an iPhone running some sort of handwriting recognition geared especially for Chinese characters. According to the post, this is how Apple will integrate Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) ...

Learn your ideograms with iChinese

by Erica Sadun (Feb 28th, 2008)

Matthias Huber wrote in to tell us about his new iChinese system that helps you learn your characters. iChinese uses the iPhone's touch-based interface to teach users how to write the characters on-screen. It's available by adding the http://ichinese.de/repo repository to Installer.app. I don't ...

NYT on gray market iPhones

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2008)

The Gray Lady has published a piece examining the so-called "gray market" for iPhones in China -- legitimate products transferred through not-so-legitimate channels. Though we of course have no idea how prevalent this was before the rise of the 'Net, I have to think that the shrinking global ...

Found Footage: A Chinese iPhone rip-off

by David Chartier (Jun 21st, 2007)

Oh those endearing Chinese manufacturers - what would the electronics industry be without at least a few crappy knockoff products to keep original manufacturers on their toes? (Answer: companies like Apple could probably lay off a few lawyer infantries, but that's a whole 'nother conversation.) ...