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The iPhone was immediately dubbed "the Jesus Phone" by bloggers.
iPhone立刻被博客寫手們奉為“耶穌手機”。
But Apple's competitors emphasized that, at $500, it cost too much to be successful.
但是蘋果公司的競爭對手強調(diào)，售價500美元很難成功。
"It's the most expensive phone in the world," Microsoft's Steve Ballmer said in a CNBC interview.
“這是世界上最貴的手機，”微軟公司的史蒂夫·鮑爾默在接受美國全國廣播公司財經(jīng)頻道的采訪時這樣說道。
"And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard."
“但它確實對商務人士沒有吸引力，因為沒有鍵盤。”
Once again Microsoft had underestimated Jobs's product.
微軟又一次低估了喬布斯的產(chǎn)品。
By the end of 2010, Apple had sold ninety million iPhones,
至2010年底，蘋果公司已售出9000萬部iPhone，
and it reaped more than half of the total profits generated in the global cell phone market.
其利潤占全球手機市場利潤總額的一半以上。
"Steve understands desire," said Alan Kay, the Xerox PARC pioneer who had envisioned a "Dynabook" tablet computer forty years earlier.
“史蒂夫了解人的欲望。”艾倫·凱說道。凱是施樂PARC的先驅(qū)，他在40年前就設想過推出一臺Dynabook平板電腦。
Kay was good at making prophetic assessments, so Jobs asked him what he thought of the iPhone.
凱善于作出預言性的評價，于是喬布斯詢問他對于iPhone的看法。
"Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you'll rule the world," Kay said.
“把屏幕做成5英寸寬，8英寸長，世界就是你的了。”凱說。
He did not know that the design of the iPhone had started with,
而他當時并不知道，iPhone的設計源自平板電腦的想法，
and would someday lead to, ideas for a tablet computer that would fulfill -- indeed exceed -- his vision for the Dynabook.
并將用于平板電腦上，而蘋果的平板電腦實現(xiàn)了并且實際上超越了凱所設想的Dynabook。
