Last weekend was suddenly the Swedish language replaced to Finnish language in iTunes and in Appstore.
In Finland there are about 5 million people, and of those about 300,000 speak Swedish. Now, Apple decided to remove 
Swedish from both iTunes and the Appstore. This means that many do not understand what the various apps can do…
Now it would be very interesting to know if it is only in Finland that they have removed the second language in the country or if they have done it also in Canada, Belgium and other countries that have more official languages than one language.
Åland radio interviewed apple support finland and received the following reply: Apple Finland has deleted Swedish as selectable languages for their services in appstore and itunes. It confirms Apple customer service in Finland . It is still possible to choose Sweden as a country when services are used but then it is not possible to buy apps and music, or make updates.
Uppdate:
Now I have got hold of the journalist.
We referred to the headquarters press center in the United States, or Ireland for an extended interview and explanation … However, the guy at customer service nationwide Swedish and even he thought the decision was crazy!
railisergejeff
maj 3, 2013
It is too bad! 😦
JG
maj 3, 2013
Did Ålands Radio ask why? Otherwise it wasnt much of an interview.
Mats Adamczak (@matsadamczak)
maj 3, 2013
No they didn’t and I agree with you! So I asked them at twitter https://twitter.com/matsadamczak/status/330333459983761409
Fredrik Gilljam
maj 3, 2013
Har du jobbigt med att ha Finska i AppStore på din iPad / iPhone och då bor på Åland? Gör följande.
Byt OS Språk till Engelska istället för Svenska och logga sedan ur AppStore/iTunes och sen in igen så har du i alla fall det på Engelska och valutan i Euro..
GH
maj 3, 2013
Bra, tack för anvisningen.
GH
maj 3, 2013
Det var som… Då kan man med bättre samvete välja bort (eller sluta sakna) Apple.
stefan alm
maj 22, 2013
Det är bara att åka över till Sverige och skaffa ett bankkonto (+ bankkort) åt sig.
Man använder sedan detta då man handlar på itunes !
Samtidigt kan man byta sitt ”tvångsfinlandsfinska” iphone abbonnemang mot ett svenskspråkigt abbonnemang !
Jag antar att teliasonera i Sverige har samma abbonnemang som teliasonera i finland har, med samma priser på teletjänster i de nordiska och baltiska länderna .