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Zut alors! MacBook announcement doesn't translate well

by Robert Palmer (RSS feed) on Oct 15th, 2008

Thanks to what appears to be a character encoding problem on a French version of the Apple website, the MacBook announcement -- meant to say "perfectly designed" in French -- came out reading "perfectly dumb" (or as one of our tipsters said, a more vulgar version of "perfectly poopy").

That wasn't the only problem: according to Macenstein, a Macgeneration article noted that the announcements were replete with spelling and grammatical errors. (Link is en français.)

The pages have since been updated with better grammar.

Unfortunately my decade-old high school French can't tell me what about the grammar is wrong, but hopefully our commenters can let us know by leaving a comment.

Thanks, Bertie and Fabrizio!

Tags: french, grammar, macbook, macenstein, macgeneration, spelling, translation

Filed under: iTS

iTunes Video Stores coming to France

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on May 28th, 2008

Over at MacGeneration, Christophe Laporte and his friends have discovered a nearly-live French iTunes Video Store. If you'd like to check it out yourself, search the store for "desperate" and click on Les Saisons TV.

France will join the UK and Germany with transatlantic video stores. Episode pricing falls between €1,99 and €2,49, which is pretty steep given the strength of the Euro. More details and pictures are here.

Tags: Expensive, French, itunes, itunes-store, Retail, Store, Video

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple, iPhone

Orange gets French iPhone in November

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 20th, 2007

It's official: Orange has the iPhone in France.

France Telecom, Orange's parent company, says they won't subsidize the iPhone, but also didn't say anything about price, according to CNN Money. They also didn't give a release date other than November-- the UK and Germany are getting it on 9th November, so it should be close to that point.

Reader Samuel, who sent us this French article (all I know is "sacrebleu," sorry), also notes that Apple seems to be signing with the national operators in each country, so the prediction for Italy is TIM, Belgium is predicted Belgacom (although reader Jelle says he saw the iPhone on Base's website, so who knows), KPN in the Netherlands, and so on.

I'm clueless about French wireless providers-- is Orange good? Does this deal have you Francophiles saying oui or no?

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Tags: apple, france, french, french-telecom, iphone, november, orange, release

Filed under: Cult of Mac

Ich bin ein Mac. Und du?

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Nov 16th, 2006

You've seen the US ones. You've seen the Japanese ones. Now, behold, Deutsches GetAMac. "Ein iPod. Klassik!" Ja zum Mac.

Of course, it's not just German. Apple hosts a surprising number of internationalized "I'm a Mac." "I'm a PC" ads. There's the badly dubbed French one, the strangely familiar Spanish one and a host of Scandahoovian ones, which they did't even bother to translate. I guess everyone in Northern Europe really does speak English.

Danke Magno Urbano

Tags: French, German Mac Ads, GermanMacAds, International, Scandahoovian, Spanish

Filed under: Audio, iTS

French 'DRM interoperability' law reverses stance, no longer forces Apple to open iTMS

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Aug 2nd, 2006

Portions of France's copyright law that initially were going to force Apple to open the iTMS + iPod economy for interoperability have now been ruled as unconstitutional. In fact, these provisions have taken almost a complete 180, and they now provide for fining anyone who is caught reverse-engineering DRM in the name of interoperability. Going even further, small fines of 150 euros ($191) for uploading music and 38 euros ($48.50) for downloading it have been replace by steep criminal charges and multiple years of prison time, as well as fines of 500,000 euros ($638,200) - at least that's better than the 'up to $150,000/song' that we have here in the U.S.

Whether you consider this a win or a loss for the digital music industry, let's try to keep any resulting discussion civilized boys and girls.

[via CNET]

Tags: change, DRM, France, French, interoperability, law, provisions, removed

Filed under: Odds and ends

Forgotten Apple TV Ad from 1989

by Damien Barrett (RSS feed) on Apr 23rd, 2006

Reader Michael Preidel sent us this very interesting Apple commercial from 1989. It's in French but is subtitled in English.

Clicking on the image will take you to Michael's site where you can view the commercial. Thank you Michael for salvaging this interesting Apple nostalgia.

Tags: 1989, Apple commericial, AppleCommericial, French

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Open Source

Newly proposed French law does not penalize Apple

by Fabienne Serriere (RSS feed) on Mar 17th, 2006

First off, I would like to note that this post is an opinion piece, and though it contains facts, the opinions contained therein are definitely biased towards open source, open standards, the freedom of software programmers, and technological innovation.

France's Assemblé Nationale voted in yesterday evening the DADVSI, a rather hideous proposal which will most likely become law when France's Sénat deems it constitutional and President Chirac signs it. Both of the latter are likely as the president is of the same majority right party (UMP) as the Assemblé Nationale. The New York Times (and Slashdot) have noted incorrectly that the law will contain clauses for interoperability required of iTunes and iPods, but those amendments did not make it into the final proposal voted on Thursday night. Read on for a breakdown of the law as it currently awaits, almost certain, approval.

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Tags: copyright, france, french, ipod, itunes, law

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