And how do you think the Chinese script is input on the devices? Right, IME.

And the IME uses what transliteration system? Pinyin. And pinyin is in what language? Right, Mandarin!

Sure, you can use handwriting as the alternative, provided that you remember how to write them (it's easily forgotten especially if you don't write on paper often.

Nevertheless AFAIK dialect users use latin when writing messages, so I think the discussion is moot

But everyone else is adopting agile, so if we choose to have longer architecture phase, we will fail to adapt to the evolving market, and lose out.

I suppose it's a tragedy of commons, with time-to-market as the abused resource.

The readers is/are the market. So they will decide.

You writers suffering is probably because of the publishers. So work out with the readers on how to deal with the publishers. Or create your own channels for distributing your works. Maybe you can learn something from how a minor group of Japanese people sells their stuffs.

The story of Iron: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html where the developer confesses the motive for developing Iron.

Here's a blogpost dissecting the comparison: http://insanitybit.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/srware-iron-browser-a-real-private-alternative-to-chrome-21/