乔布斯传 第686期:2010年1月，iPad发布(3)

There was also the requisite¹ dismissal from Bill Gates.

比尔·盖茨也少不了冷嘲热讽一番。

"I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard -- in other words a netbook -- will be the mainstream," he told Brent Schlender.

“我仍然认为，手写笔和真正的键盘，也就是上网本，会是主流，”他对布伦特·施伦德说。

"So, it's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with the iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.'

“我没有当初iPhone发布时的那种感觉。iPhone发布的时候，我心里想：‘哦天哪，微软的目标不够高。’

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"

iPad是个不错的阅读器，但是它没有任何地方会让我觉得，‘噢，我多希望这是微软做出来的。’”

He continued to insist that the Microsoft approach of using a stylus for input² would prevail.

他坚持认为，微软的手写笔输入方案会成为行业标准。

"I've been predicting a tablet with a stylus for many years," he told me. "I will eventually turn out to be right or be dead."

盖茨对我说：“多年来，我都一直预言今后会出现配备手写笔的平板电脑。要么我是对的，要么我就死定了。”

The night after his announcement, Jobs was annoyed and depressed³.

在发布会第二晚，乔布斯非常恼火和沮丧。

As we gathered in his kitchen for dinner, he paced around the table calling up emails and web pages on his iPhone.

我们聚集在他家厨房吃晚饭，他在餐桌旁来回踱步，用自己的iPhone收发电子邮件，浏览网页。

I got about eight hundred email messages in the last twenty-four hours. Most of them are complaining.

在过去24小时内，我收到了约800封电子邮件。大多数都是在抱怨。

There's no USB cord! There's no this, no that. Some of them are like, "Fuck you, how can you do that?"

没有USB线！没有这个，没有那个。有些人会说，“靠，你怎么能这样做呢？”

I don't usually write people back, but I replied, "Your parents would be so proud of how you turned out."

我一般不回复别人的邮件，但是这封我回了，“你父母会为你这么有出息而感到骄傲的。”

And some don't like the iPad name, and on and on. I kind of got depressed today. It knocks you back a bit.

有些人不喜欢iPad这个名字，等等等等。我今天有些郁闷，有点受到打击了。

He did get one congratulatory call that day that he appreciated, from President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.

不过他那天也收到了一封值得髙兴的贺电，来自奥巴马总统的办公厅主任拉姆·伊曼纽尔。

But he noted⁴ at dinner that the president had not called him since taking office.

但他在晚餐时指出，奥巴马总统上任以来还没跟他通过电话。

1 requisite   

adj.需要的，必不可少的；n.必需品

参考例句：

• He hasn't got the requisite qualifications for the job.他不具备这工作所需的资格。
• Food and air are requisite for life.食物和空气是生命的必需品。

2 input   

n.输入(物)；投入；vt.把(数据等)输入计算机

参考例句：

• I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
• All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。

3 depressed   

adj.沮丧的，抑郁的，不景气的，萧条的

参考例句：

• When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
• His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。

4 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。