Automated Translations in Apps: A Threat to Quality and Credibility
Apps that clearly contain automatically generated translations that no native speaker has reviewed are so disturbing to me that I can’t use them1. I don’t think the developers realize the damage they are doing to their software. Such apps come across as incredibly unprofessional to me, and I find it very difficult to spend money on them because I judge the quality of the entire project based on this sloppy usage of automated (AI) translation, which is now so easily accessible. Two examples that come to mind: Appraven and Twos. Unfortunately, there are so many more.
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Sometimes I give them a second chance by switching the language to English, which is thankfully possible on iOS and macOS. ↩︎