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The question "What's on your iPad?" replaced "What's on your iPod?"
以前，人們會互相詢問：“你的iPod里面有什么？”現在這個問題變成了：“你的iPad上有什么？”
Even President Obama's staffers, who embraced the iPad as a mark of their tech hipness, played the game.
連奧巴馬總統的下屬也在玩iPad，他們認為iPad是技術時尚的象征。
Economic Advisor Larry Summers had the Bloomberg financial information app, Scrabble, and The Federalist Papers.
經濟顧問拉里·薩默斯下載的應用包括彭博財經資訊、拼字游戲Scrabble和《聯邦黨人文集》。
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel had a slew of newspapers,
白宮辦公廳主任拉姆·伊曼紐爾下載了大量報刊應用，
Communications Advisor Bill Burton had Vanity Fair and one entire season of the television series Lost,
白宮溝通顧問比爾·伯頓的iPad上裝有《名利場》的應用和一整季的美劇《迷失》。
and Political Director David Axelrod had Major League Baseball and NPR.
政治顧問戴維·阿克塞爾羅德下載了美國職業棒球大聯盟和全國公共廣播電臺的應用。
Jobs was stirred by a story, which he forwarded to me, by Michael Noer on Forbes.com.
有一個故事打動了喬布斯，他轉發了給我，邁克爾·內爾在福布斯網站上發表了一篇文章：
Noer was reading a science fiction novel on his iPad while staying at a dairy farm in a rural area north of Bogotá, Colombia,
他在哥倫比亞首都波哥大北部農村的一個奶牛場，正在自己的iPad上讀一部科幻小說，
when a poor six-year-old boy who cleaned the stables came up to him.
一個打掃馬廄的6歲小男孩走了過來。
Curious, Noer handed him the device.
小男孩很好奇，內爾于是把iPad遞給了他。
With no instruction, and never having seen a computer before, the boy started using it intuitively.
在沒人指導也從未見過電腦的情況下，這個小男孩開始憑自己的直覺使用iPad。
He began swiping the screen, launching apps, playing a pinball game.
他開始用手指在屏幕上滑動，啟動應用程序，玩彈球游戲。
"Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction," Noer wrote.
“史蒂夫·喬布斯設計出了一個強大的電腦，連目不識丁的6歲孩子都能在沒有指導的情況下使用，”內爾寫道。
"If that isn't magical, I don't know what is."
“如果這還不算神奇，那我真不知道有什么東西稱得上神奇了。”
In less than a month Apple sold one million iPads. That was twice as fast as it took the iPhone to reach that mark.
不到一個月，蘋果公司就售出了100萬臺iPad，iPhone花了兩倍的時間才達到這一銷量。
By March 2011, nine months after its release, fifteen million had been sold.
至2011年3月，即iPad發布9個月后，其銷量已達1500萬臺。
By some measures it became the most successful consumer product launch in history.
從一些數據來看，它已成為有史以來最為成功的消費產品。
