They could have asked the community to volunteer with maintaining the translations. I'm fairly certain there would be people willing to do that for at least some of these languages.
> in order to maintain consistency
Yeah, Microsoft has always been all about consistency.
Seriously though, if it's really about it, then why not include these languages in other apps as well with a community-driven translation?
The likely real reason for the removal of these language versions is that the places where they are used are not major markets for iOS devices. But then it's not like they were either when Outlook for iOS was being released in the end of 2015. And if the iOS and Android apps were consistent internally, then 90% of the translation strings would probably overlap, so the overhead of maintaining the additional translation for the iOS version would be minimal.
Afrikaans
Amharic
Azerbaijani (Latin)
Bosnian Latin
Basque
Persian
Filipino
Irish
Galician
Gujarati
Icelandic
Kazakh
Khmer
Lao
Lithuanian
Latvian
Macedonian
Malayalam
Marathi
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Slovenian
Albanian
Serbian (Cyrillic, Serbia)
Serbian (Latin, Serbia)
Tamil
Telugu
Urdu
> in order to maintain consistency
Yeah, Microsoft has always been all about consistency.
Seriously though, if it's really about it, then why not include these languages in other apps as well with a community-driven translation?
The likely real reason for the removal of these language versions is that the places where they are used are not major markets for iOS devices. But then it's not like they were either when Outlook for iOS was being released in the end of 2015. And if the iOS and Android apps were consistent internally, then 90% of the translation strings would probably overlap, so the overhead of maintaining the additional translation for the iOS version would be minimal.