I just realized how the Arabic language is falling behind in the technology world, with all the new terms like cloud computing and all this new stuff , that I can’t even think as a native arab speaker what would they be called in Arabic.
But the thing that recently made me stop and think about this is Apple’s new “Siri ” you can speak to the thing in all European languages and that’s normal at least you can argue they use the same alphabet, but Chinese & Korean and you can not do Arabic !!! Come on Apple you can do better than that. If you give this a more deeper look you won’t be surprised by Apple’s behavior they have been constantly ignoring Arabic since the start, from lack of support to ePub formats in Arabic on iBooks to Siri now…nothing has changed about Apple.
Is this part of the world where we live in where more than 300 million people speak the same language no longer care about their mother tongue ?? Is it companies like Apple who don’t care or is it us who don’t ??
Needless to say that Arabic is left out of the whole storage platforms, I can’t even imagine translating “storage pool” or “LUN” to Arabic !! I do not know of any storage provider that has it’s GUI’s in Arabic nor I think they even considered it. Having met a lot of customers in this region I think it would be great added value if a storage company can do this.