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Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future.
自第一代Mac電腦誕生以來，還沒有哪個產品能夠有如此清晰的愿景，并有力地推動了公司的未來發展。
"If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth,
"如果有人好奇為什么蘋果公司會存在于世，
I would hold up this as a good example," Jobs told Newsweek's Steve Levy at the time.
我就要拿這個來解釋。"喬布斯當時對《新聞周刊》的斯蒂芬·列維這樣說。
Wozniak, who had long been skeptical of integrated systems, began to revise his philosophy.
當時，沃茲尼亞克一直對整合的系統抱有懷疑，后來他改變了這個想法。
"Wow, it makes sense that Apple was the one to come up with it," Wozniak enthused after the iPod came out.
"哇，要說這個是蘋果公司的產品，那一點兒都不奇怪。"沃茲尼亞克在iPod推出后非常興奮。
"After all, Apple's whole history is making both the hardware and the software, with the result that the two work better together."
他說："畢竟蘋果公司一直都在做硬件和軟件，現在它把兩者整合起來，效果更好。"
The day that Levy got his press preview of the iPod,
就在列維拿到iPod試用樣品的那天，
he happened to be meeting Bill Gates at a dinner, and he showed it to him.
他正好要與比爾·蓋茨共進晚餐，于是他把樣品拿給他看。
"Have you seen this yet?" Levy asked.
列維問："你看過這個了嗎？"
Levy noted, "Gates went into a zone that recalls those science fiction films where a space alien,
列維描述當天的情景："蓋茨就像是科幻電影里的外星人。
confronted with a novel object, creates some sort of force tunnel between him and the object,
當外星人看到了一個新奇的物件，就會在自己和這個物體之間建立一條能量通道，
allowing him to suck directly into his brain all possible information about it."
這樣就能把所有關于這個物體的信息都灌進大腦。"
Gates played with the scroll wheel and pushed every button combination, while his eyes stared fixedly at the screen.
蓋茨擺弄著iPod的轉盤，試了試所有的按鍵組合，他的眼睛一直盯著屏幕。
"It looks like a great product," he finally said.
最后說："這看起來是個很棒的產品。"
Then he paused and looked puzzled. "It's only for Macintosh?" he asked.
然后他停頓了一下，露出疑惑的表情，問道："這只能在麥金塔上面用嗎？"
