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There was another disappointment that he tried to downplay:
而NeXT還有一個令人失望之處，最后喬布斯竭力含糊其辭。
"Early next year, we will have our 0.9 release,
“明年初，我們將會推出0.9版，
which is for software developers and aggressive end users."
適于軟件開發者和勇于嘗鮮的終端用戶?！?/div>
There was a bit of nervous laughter.
喬布斯緊張地笑了笑。
What he was saying was that the real release of the machine and its software,
他的意思是，機器和軟件的真正發布，
known as the 1.0 release, would not actually be happening in early 1989.
即1.0版，不是1989年初。
In fact he didn't set a hard date.
事實上，他還沒有設定確切日期。
He merely suggested it would be sometime in the second quarter of that year.
喬布斯只是表示，1.0版將會在1989年第二季度推出。
At the first NeXT retreat back in late 1985, he had refused to budge,
1985年底第一次NeXT外出集思會回來時，
despite Joanna Hoffman's pushback, from his commitment to have the machine finished in early 1987.
喬布斯曾拒絕喬安娜·霍夫曼推后發布日期的提議，他承諾要在1987年初完成機器。
Now it was clear it would be more than two years later.
現在，很明顯，這款電腦的發布會要推遲兩年多。
The event ended on a more upbeat note, literally.
某種意義上講，發布會在一個較為樂觀的基調中結束了。
Jobs brought onstage a violinist from the San Francisco Symphony
喬布斯請來一位舊金山交響樂團的小提琴手，
who played Bach's A Minor Violin Concerto in a duet with the NeXT computer onstage.
同臺上的NeXT一起演奏巴赫的《A小調小提琴協奏曲》。
People erupted in jubilant applause. The price and the delayed release were forgotten in the frenzy.
人群爆發出歡快的掌聲?？駸嶂校藗兺浟藘r格和推遲發布的不愉快。
When one reporter asked him immediately afterward why the machine was going to be so late,
就在此后，一位記者問喬布斯為什么這款電腦會推遲這么久，
Jobs replied, "It's not late. It's five years ahead of its time."
喬布斯回答說：“并不遲，它領先了時代5年?！?/p>
