工业设计专业英语第十五课.pdfVIP

THE IPOD, WHICH celebrated its 10th birthday on Sunday, may not have been the first portable music player, or even the first to play digital music files 。 But its the one that everyone remembers, and will go down in history as one of the most significant technology launches of the 21st century 。 周日庆祝其 10 周岁生日的 IPOD 可能不是第一台便携式音乐播放器，或者甚至是第一个 播放数字音乐文件的播放器。但这是所有人都记得的，并且将成为 21 世纪最重要的技术 发布之一。 Sure, there was the Sony Walkman 。 It played cassette tapes ， and everyone had one, but no one fondly remembers the Walkman ’s industrial design 。 Nor was the Walkman even the first mobile music device 。 That distinction goes to various portable vinyl players -— yes, vinyl! — - that floated around during the pre-Walkman era. 当然，有索尼随身听。它播放了盒式磁带，每个人都有一个，但没有人怀念 Walkman 的 工业设计。 Walkman 也不是第一款移动音乐设备。这种区别适用于各种 便携式乙烯基播放 器 — 是的，乙烯基！ — 在前期 Walkman 时代浮现。 The iPod, though, was the most revolutionary portable music player of all ， and vividly demonstrated Apple ’s authority as a consumer electronics manufacturer. When it launched ， the iPod was able to benefit from the rogue music distribution of peer-to-peer file-sharing services like Napster, and that helped provide a foothold 。 不过， iPod 是所有人中最具革命性的便携式音乐播放器，并生动地展现了苹果作为消费电 子产品制造商的权威。当它启动后 ,iPod 就能够从 Napster 等 P2P 文件共享服务的流氓音 乐发行中受益，并且帮助提供了一个立足点。 But the iPod ’s real success enabler was iTunes， a fully curated platform with buy-in from the music industry 。 And then there was the devices industrial design. The first iPod was an object of techno-lust ， and the product line ’s design has only become more enchanting 。 但是 iPod 的真正成功推动者是 iTunes ，这是一个可以从音乐行业买入的完全策划平台。 然后是设备的工业设计。第一个 iPod 是技术的对象，产品线的设计只是变得更加迷人。 Available in some two dozen iterations over the