| Hello~ I am your der (Deer) a house that loves digital, likes to talk about current affairs hot spots, and digs cost-effective things.
Recently, a small friend sent a private message der, curious why many people like to set the mobile phone language to Chinese Traditional or English?
Some people say that maybe others are Hong Kongers, and it is not very normal to use traditional Chinese and English; Some people say that if you switch the language of the mobile phone to other regions, there will be no psoriasis-like advertising; It is also said that it may be to fit X... In short, there are many sayings.
So today der will talk to you about why many people's mobile phones like to set the mobile phone language to Chinese Traditional or English?
1. There are few advertisements, or even no
If many friends choose Apple iPhones, one of the big reasons is the psoriasis ads that can be seen everywhere in the domestic Android mobile phone system.
The original domestic application is more "cancerous", built-in various advertising, but I did not expect that many domestic mobile phone manufacturers have also learned badly, and even the application that comes with the mobile phone has also added advertising, once it enters the secondary interface, you can see it.
Although Xiaomi now takes the lead and says that it can be turned off, it has brought a relatively poor experience to many people for a long time.
If we set the phone language to English, you will find that the mobile phone system and the once "cancerous" third-party application do not have "psoriasis" ads.
In fact, the reason why this is so, der feels that it is still a matter of the interests of manufacturers.
To know that many domestic applications target users are Chinese, and the outer area of the user is there, but relatively few, domestic manufacturers want to make more money, must be to the place of more people advertising, so when advertising, basically for the domestic mainland area of the user to launch, the outer area is relatively less, some simply do not invest.
So setting the phone language to Chinese Traditional or English, which means that we are not the target group of the app, that is, the interface in English or other languages with less advertising.
However, der found that there are exceptions.
Like many people like to use Huawei mobile phones, I don't know if it is the reason for updating the Hongmeng system, do not play cards according to the routine at all, you can switch the phone language to English at will, and system-level application advertising will still accompany you.
It is said that it seems to be identified according to the region of the Huawei account or the OEM region of the mobile phone, that is, the mobile phone you buy is produced by a domestic factory, which may be marked according to the region of your device to push ads.
2. The interface is simple and beautiful
Many people open the domestic "cancer" third-party application, will always find a taxi software, built-in wallet, finance, recharge, games and other functions, the degree of bloat will not complain, manufacturers want you to use must push you a variety of advertising.
Just like OO taxi, Chinese interface various "XX God Coupon", "X Day Fruit", "Preferential Refueling", "Borrow Money" and other psoriasis advertisements, the whole page looks varied.
But once you set the phone's language to English, and the app changes to English, you'll find that at this point the taxi app is back to its "purest" time - only the simple taxi function.
In addition to the simple and beautiful interface, some applications will also take into account the users in the outer area, and even "quietly" provide more preferential activities for the users in the outer area, and we who change the mobile phone language to English, sometimes may avoid being killed by big data and get better discounts.
But the reason why it is so concise, der is estimated to be similar to the principle of advertising above, since the manufacturer feels that there are few users in the outer area and does not advertise, then the program ape as a part-time worker will naturally not be so diligent, lazy to do the most basic function.
Of course, if the interface is simple and beautiful at large, but in detail, it will be more natural in terms of look and feel.
Like many overseas applications used by some small partners, basically abide by the specifications of English as a common language, although you can choose to translate Chinese, but in the details of glyphs and typography design will not be adapted, just translation, so often see different glyphs, blank space is more abrupt and so on.
When set in English, the glyph and typography design can be said to be "original" display, especially some of the big guys who do design, finally do not have to "force obsessive-compulsive disorder".
3. The Chinese translation of some applications is not possible
Like some manufacturers, on the surface, they attach importance to the domestic market, but the localization of actual domestic applications is very unconcerned.
That's right, it's Samsung's OneUI!
der has used Samsung S20 machine, some applications of Samsung's official, the Chinese version of the National Bank is very perfunctory, and it can even be said that it is not too much to use the machine to turn over. Like the Stock manager that has been widely complained about, the translator of Samsung OneUI is a stock manager... And what good balls, an application that will not die, etc. translation, will no longer spit.
But like OneUI is good, at least it does not affect the experience, like Amazon although it provides a Chinese interface, but the translation of the product is really poor...
3. Confidentiality
For the little partner who pays attention to privacy, he doesn't like others to look at his mobile phone, or even the content of the mobile phone.
Changing the language of the mobile phone to English or other languages, except for some applications displayed as Chinese, can play a role in confidentiality to a certain extent, after all, many people do not fully understand English, let alone other languages such as Japanese.
But in the eyes of many people, the English interface is typed Chinese, and they will feel that you are installing X.
4. Learn English
Der knows that this reason is indeed a bit far-fetched, but it is not impossible.
In addition to daily learning, the simplest practice is to directly use the application of the corresponding language, while learning on the Internet, which is also good for memory.
Finally, der feels that forcibly changing the mobile phone language to English or other languages can indeed give us a better experience many times, especially the advertising part, which is really comfortable to watch!
But for many domestic applications, they are written based on Chinese, so once changed to other languages, some of the meaning of the middle translation may be far-fetched, but will affect the experience or learning.
So the question arises: if it were you, would you choose to change the language to English?