The Apple iPad does not support Traditional Chinese Input!!!
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 
I was playing with the iPhone/iPad Simulator on Mac OS X because I plan to write some mini-apps for this platform in my spare time (like...I have plenty...right! /sarcasm). [I'd better get back to my study soon!]
It appears that the new iPad does not support the input of Traditional Chinese. However, it does support the Simplified Chinese input. The iPhone supports both inputs and the iPad is based on the same operating system. There is no excuse for not having the same supports built into the iPad. We can create an application and run it on both devices easily. So what's the reason for this? Apple & Steve Jobs...you are going to upset many users from Hong Kong & Taiwan.
[Oh..on a second thought...Apple users are like sheeps. They will just accept whatever God Steve says...so this may not be an issue at all.]
I personally think the Simplified Chinese is not the real Chinese language (in the sense that all the necessary elements of the language were removed...hence, "Simplified").
Although I seldom write in Chinese, I do think the Traditional Chinese language is much more elegant & beautiful. Sadly, most mainland Chinese people do not read/write Traditional Chinese (I would say > 90% of them).
Here are some screen captures from the iPhone / iPad simulator:-
iPad
The home screen:
The "Settings" screen:
The "General" screen:
The "Add New Keyboard.." menu under "Settings | General":
["Traditional Chinese" is not among one of the available keyboards...sigh!]
The "General" screen with multple input keyboards:
iPhone
On the other hand, the iPhone has various Traditional Chinese keyboards to choose from...
The home screen:
The "Settings" screen:
The "General" screen:
The "Keyboard" setting menu:
List of available keyboards...
There are 3 different types of keyboards for Traditional Chinese input:
For example, 2 of them are selected here:
You can see the number "3" beside the words "International Keyboards". It indicates 3 input keyboards (1 English + 2 Traditional Chinese) are available for text input:
I hope Apple will provide a Traditional Chinese input / keyboard on the iPad when they launch it in Hong Kong & Taiwan. Mr. $teve Job$, are you listening?
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