I think many people from the Global South would agree with you and not just Africans. That was also exactly my thought when i read the headline, even though he did nothing against my native Kenya. Also, the phrase "Third World" isn't the most appropriate one to describe a good chunk of the world.
>Many Ethiopians speak a Semitic language (Amharic) for reasons unknown to us.
Amharic isn't the only Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. We have other Semitic languages spoken both in Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is just the Red Sea that divides these two countries from the other Semitic speaking countries. Yemen, across the sea has other Semitic languages other than Arabic. Also, just like Indo-European is a large grouping of languages, the Semitic languages are ordinarily grouped under Afro-Asiatic languages. Thus, besides some of the Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea, we also have two other subgroups of Afro-Asiatic namely, Cushitic and Omotic languages that are also spoken in Ethiopia. Amharic thus is well contextualised for Ethiopia.
For one to use WhatsApp to make calls, for example, one would need to provide it with permission to view the call logs without making WhatsApp the default app for calling.
A different pet peeve of mine on iOS is the USSD menu which is center-aligned, and i find that very ugly. Maybe the usage of this menu isn't universal but for someone from a developing country, we use that like a million times a day. Mostly we are choosing a menu item to continue with a dialogue and the numbers are not aligned.
Checked MySQL and i see almost everyone pronounces it as My Sequel. Well, with the exception of Marten Mickos, who was the CEO of MySQL before same was acquired by Sun Microsystems. I guess, this would be another tomato, tomahto.
Reminds me another short story i once read, Lexicographicide, by Taban Lo Liyong. The dictator, every year, eliminates certain letters from the alphabet, or was it words from the dictionary - it's decades since i read it. Thereafter none can use the same.
Samsung has now decided that for me to use the camera on my Android phone, i must give full permission to something called Nearby Devices. Thankfully, i can live without the camera but for the first time, i mulling over moving to Apple.
A few times, I almost emptied some scraps on my plate together with a spoon or a fork directly into a rubbish bin. Since observing that, I have always wondered how many other spoons I have inadvertently thrown over the years.
Sometimes this doesn't work like what happens on the desktop with Google, for example. English is my default language, and in country where English is also the official language but Google in its wisdom, decided that the default for google.com is Swahili. Yet, I don't know of anyone that uses Swahili as his default langauge on digital devices. Microsoft too. Every once in a while they would send me text messages in cryptic Swahili that I have never bothered to find out what it means.
I saw Kenyan police use it on a bus I was in. At the time, I didn't think much about it for being asked to alight the bus and be searched was already an inconvenience for. Not shocked that the Kenyan government was duped. I am certain some top officials also made their killing off of this probably even getting them at a price a multiple of the quoted 60k. Fraud and corruption work together very well.