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The iPad commercials were not about the device, but about what you could do with it.
iPad廣告沒(méi)有介紹設(shè)備本身，而是講述你可以用它做什么。
Indeed its success came not just from the beauty of the hardware but from the applications, known as apps,
事實(shí)上，iPad的成功不僅來(lái)自其漂亮的硬件，也來(lái)自其應(yīng)用程序，
that allowed you to indulge in all sorts of delightful activities.
用戶可以借此進(jìn)行各種有趣的活動(dòng)。
There were thousands -- and soon hundreds of thousands -- of apps that you could download for free or for a few dollars.
最開(kāi)始只有數(shù)百種應(yīng)用程序可供免費(fèi)或低價(jià)下載，但很快，應(yīng)用程序的數(shù)量就已成千上萬(wàn)。
You could sling angry birds with the swipe of your finger, track your stocks,
你可以玩“憤怒的小鳥(niǎo)”，也可以追蹤股票信息、
watch movies, read books and magazines, catch up on the news, play games, and waste glorious amounts of time.
看電影、閱讀電子書(shū)和雜志、獲知新聞、玩游戲，消磨大把時(shí)光。
Once again the integration of the hardware, software, and store made it easy.
硬件、軟件和應(yīng)用程序商店的整合讓一切都變得很簡(jiǎn)單。
But the apps also allowed the platform to be sort of open, in a very controlled way, to outside developers who wanted to create software and content for it
但是，蘋(píng)果公司也在對(duì)那些想要為iPad開(kāi)發(fā)軟件和內(nèi)容的外部開(kāi)發(fā)者有控制地開(kāi)放應(yīng)用程序商店；
open, that is, like a carefully curated and gated community garden.
這個(gè)平臺(tái)就像一個(gè)精心管理和控制的社區(qū)花園。
The apps phenomenon began with the iPhone.
應(yīng)用程序熱潮始于iPhone。
When it first came out in early 2007, there were no apps you could buy from outside developers, and Jobs initially resisted allowing them.
2007年初，iPhone剛剛推出時(shí)，沒(méi)有外部開(kāi)發(fā)人員開(kāi)發(fā)的應(yīng)用程序，喬布斯最初也拒絕向外部開(kāi)發(fā)人員開(kāi)放。
He didn't want outsiders to create applications for the iPhone that could mess it up, infect it with viruses, or pollute its integrity.
他不想讓外人為iPhone創(chuàng)建應(yīng)用程序，因?yàn)檫@樣可能會(huì)把iPhone搞得亂七八糟，讓iPhone感染病毒，或者破壞其完整性。
