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After a lot of negotiating with the record companies, he said,
在和一些唱片公司進行了很多輪談判之后，他說：
"they were willing to do something with us to change the world."
“他們想加入我們，和我們一起改變世界。”
The iTunes Store would start with 200,000 tracks, and it would grow each day.
iTunes商店起初會有20萬首歌曲，之后的每一天都會有新增曲目。
By using the store, he said, you can own your songs, burn them on CDs,
他還說，有了iTunes商店，你可以得到你想要的歌曲，把它們刻錄成CD，
be assured of the download quality, get a preview of a song before you download it,
不用擔心質量問題，可以在下載之前試聽曲目，
and use it with your iMovies and iDVDs to "make the soundtrack of your life."
還可以用iMovie和iDVD以這些歌曲為配樂“制作你自己的音樂大碟”。
The price? Just 99 cents, he said, less than a third of what a Starbucks latte cost.
價格如何？99美分。他說，還不到一杯星巴克拿鐵咖啡價格的1/3。
Why was it worth it? Because to get the right song from Kazaa took about fifteen minutes, rather than a minute.
為什么花這個錢是值得的？因為要從Kazaa下載一首優質的歌曲需要15分鐘，而iTunes只需要1分鐘。
By spending an hour of your time to save about four dollars, he calculated, "you're working for under the minimum wage!"
為了省4美元而花費整整1個小時，他說：“你賺得比最低時薪還要低！”
And one more thing... "With iTunes, it's not stealing anymore. It's good karma."
還有...“用iTunes下載歌曲，不再偷竊。你種下的是善因。”
Clapping the loudest for that line were the heads of the record labels in the front row,
最熱烈的掌聲來自觀眾席的前排，幾大唱片公司的老板都坐在那里，
including Doug Morris sitting next to Jimmy Iovine, in his usual baseball cap, and the whole crowd from Warner Music.
包括道格·莫里斯，他的旁邊是戴著棒球帽的吉米·約維內，還有華納音樂的所有高層。
Eddy Cue, who was in charge of the store, predicted that Apple would sell a million songs in six months.
負責iTunes商店的埃迪·庫埃預計，蘋果將在未來6個月銷售100萬首歌曲。
Instead the iTunes Store sold a million songs in six days.
但事實上，iTunes商店在6天內就賣掉了100萬首。
"This will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry," Jobs declared.
喬布斯宣告：“這將作為音樂行業的一個轉折點被載入史冊。”
