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Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by fredsted on Friday November 20, 2020 @07:58AM (#25159998)
Does anyone know why it's not available yet? I'm in Denmark, and while Siri on Watch and iPhone speak Danish, apparently if I buy a HomePod, it'll only work in English.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by kissiel on Friday November 20, 2020 @08:05AM (#25160060)
It looks like it's available in countries that have support for apple's speech to text: https://www.apple.com/ios/feature-availability/#siri-neural-...

Kinda sucks. Here in Poland there's no siri in polish. I'd wish apple would give users an option to mark "yeah, I can handle english, sell me the damn device". Same with upcoming fitness service.

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by messe on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:00AM (#25161027)
Not available here in Ireland though. A predominantly english speaking nation.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by mikestew on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:35AM (#25161419)
Oh, but that would EN-GB, which has nearly no similarities to EN-US. No way Apple can sell you a HomePod that would tell you to bring an "umbrella" because it is going to rain today. Though I imagine Apple is more worried about localizing the electrical plug than they are about what to call the large, wheeled vehicles used to haul cargo.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by messe on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:19AM (#25161849)
Ideally EN-IE, but I'd settle for EN-GB or EN-US. Although to be honest, there's no real differences between those three locales for most people other than keyboard layouts and the arse-backwards way the US uses to write dates, neither of which apply to a HomePod.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by 1-more on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:24PM (#25163274)
I'd like to think that speech parsing "give me the cra(ck/ic)" would have different results depending, but I'm not sure HomePod is really ready to oblige that in either case.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by 1-more on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:53AM (#25161567)
I think you want en-IE; boy howdy is localization a fraught subject!
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by mikestew on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:37AM (#25162058)
It's been years since localization has been any defined part of my role, so I thought I'd go Wikipedia[0] just to make sure I didn't screw it up. Should have gone with my gut because Ireland wasn't listed in the page I went to. :-( "I'd swear Ireland has its own code. But Ireland is in GB, right? Or is it just UK, and GB is something else? Aww, screw it, I'm not putting this much effort into a smart arse comment, EN-GB it is."

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_localisation#Language...

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by Hamuko on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:03PM (#25162361)
>But Ireland is in GB, right?

No, Ireland is in Ireland, which is the island next to Great Britain. Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. Those and Northern Ireland are in the United Kingdom, and Great Britain, Ireland and a bunch of irrelevant islands make up the British Isles. The British Isles are in Europe, but the United Kingdom isn't in the European Union, except they kinda still are for the next month and some. But one of the Irelands definitely still is, but the entire island of Ireland isn't fully in the European Union, except that they don't want a hard border despite the fact that it's now one of the outer borders of the EU.

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by 1-more on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:22PM (#25163251)
You've gotten some great answers so far so I'll just underscore that it's fraught. Maybe less so than "what do we call that language that they speak in what was Yugoslavia" and "are Hindi and Urdu dialects or registers of the same language or different languages." My favorite bit of trivia on this particular bit of political history is that James II of England was James VII of Scotland. You can start at Wales on here and follow the non-hyperlinks to the other parts of the page[0]. Compared to the weirdness in the past it's probably easier these days to make a non-offensive "list of countries and languages" and it's still hard!!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_union#Wales

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by messe on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:43PM (#25163483)
> Or is it just UK, and GB is something else

Neither. For anybody curious, Northern Ireland is part of the UK, the Republic of Ireland is not. Great Britain is the island consisting of Scotland, Wales and England. The UK consists of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Ireland refers to both the island, and also to the state also known as the Republic of Ireland. The state has been independent from the UK since the 1920s.

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by reaperducer on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:08PM (#25162431)
But Ireland is in GB, right?

No. But that's a subject we really shouldn't get into here.

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by messe on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:40PM (#25163451)
I mean, I think it's safe to get into matters of geography. Ireland is very much not in Great Britain, and is a separate island.

Let's not mention the UK though...

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by jen20 on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:37AM (#25162057)
HomePod is available with EN-GB. Both of mine are configured that way (though in the US), and I just ordered one in the UK store to ship to the UK.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by jmkerr on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:11PM (#25162463)
It's available in Ireland, but maybe not to the Irish. As far as I know all of the European Apple online stores ship from Cork, and some of them sell Homepods.
Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by dewey on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:29PM (#25162691)
> As far as I know all of the European Apple online stores ship from Cork

Not all of them. There's a big warehouse in Czech Republic where all my orders usually come from (To Germany).

Re:HomePod has been jailbroken with checkra1n by lostlogin on Friday November 20, 2020 @10:09AM (#25161131)
Not available in New Zealand.