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It didn't take Jobs long to realize that music was going to be huge
不久，喬布斯就意識(shí)到音樂將是一筆大生意。
By 2000 people were ripping music onto their computers from CDs,
2000年時(shí)，人們正熱衷于把音樂從CD拷貝到計(jì)算機(jī)上，
or downloading it from file-sharing services such as Napster, and burning playlists onto their own blank disks.
或者從文件分享服務(wù)商那里（比如Napster）下載音樂，然后把自己挑選的音樂刻錄進(jìn)空白CD。
That year the number of blank CDs sold in the United States was 320 million.
那一年，美國(guó)的空白CD銷量達(dá)到3.2億張。
There were only 281 million people in the country.
而美國(guó)總?cè)丝谝仓徊贿^2.81億人。
That meant some people were really into burning CDs, and Apple wasn't catering to them.
這說明，有一些人非常喜歡刻錄CD，但是蘋果卻無法滿足這一人群的需求。
"I felt like a dope," he told Fortune. "I thought we had missed it. We had to work hard to catch up."
喬布斯告訴《財(cái)富》雜志：“我就像一個(gè)笨蛋。我知道我們錯(cuò)過了，我們必須要努力追上去。”
Jobs added a CD burner to the iMac, but that wasn't enough.
喬布斯在iMac上加了一個(gè)CD刻錄光驅(qū)，但這還不夠。
His goal was to make it simple to transfer music from a CD, manage it on your computer, and then burn playlists.
他的目標(biāo)是把這一過程變得更簡(jiǎn)單：從CD上傳輸音樂到計(jì)算機(jī)、用計(jì)算機(jī)管理音樂，然后刻錄。
Other companies were already making music-management applications, but they were clunky and complex.
其他公司已經(jīng)在制作一些音樂管理軟件了，但這些軟件既笨拙又復(fù)雜。
One of Jobs's talents was spotting markets that were filled with second-rate products.
喬布斯有一個(gè)特長(zhǎng)是，一眼就能看出市場(chǎng)上充斥著二流產(chǎn)品。
He looked at the music apps that were available
他看了所有音樂應(yīng)用程序，
including Real Jukebox, Windows Media Player, and one that HP was including with its CD burner
包括Real Jukebox、Windows Media Player，以及惠普推出的和刻錄光驅(qū)配套的一款軟件，
and came to a conclusion: "They were so complicated that only a genius could figure out half of their features."
然后他得出了結(jié)論：“它們都太復(fù)雜了，即使是天才也只能搞明白其中一半的功能。”
