> I'm surprised that Microsoft, Apple et al provide such a sub-par service in China that over 450 million people were bothered enough to install a third-party keyboard.
American companies man. They really don't care. So much stuff just breaks or does the bare minimum if you're using any kind of IME, or if you're not using UTF8, or even if you're not using ASCII. There seems to just be a general cultural incomprehension that there's any other way of writing on computers. (It's not even limited to companies - there's a whole bunch of Linux stuff with the same problem, e.g. Snap/FlatPak just break everything and don't care)
American companies man. They really don't care. So much stuff just breaks or does the bare minimum if you're using any kind of IME, or if you're not using UTF8, or even if you're not using ASCII. There seems to just be a general cultural incomprehension that there's any other way of writing on computers. (It's not even limited to companies - there's a whole bunch of Linux stuff with the same problem, e.g. Snap/FlatPak just break everything and don't care)