iPhone问世10周年的爱与恨

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Wall Street Journal/华尔街日报：

Dear iPhone: I Love You. I Hate You.

Dear iPhone,

How do I love thee? Let me count the apps.

A decade ago, Steve Jobs said you were “three revolutionary products” in one. He was wrong. You’ve already displaced so many more: alarm clocks, guitar tuners, pocket calculators, atlases, Filofaxes, dictaphones and weathermen (sorry, Al Roker), to name a fraction.

But you’re no “product” at all: You’re a life partner. You’re the first thing I look at in the morning and the last thing I look at before I sleep. There’s no turning you off.

网友评论：

JJ Abernathy

A delightful, satirical piece!

ROBERT MANN

Seems that everything in that entire piece is equally applicable to an Android phone. No?

William Braun

I take my phone out of my pocket when it rings. It's a phone, for God's sake, not your friend. Pathetic people.

John Boebinger

Given my experience with the first iPhone's cellular service, the most accurate part of the article was the screen shot showing an AT&T signal with only one bar...

Roger Bater

Whatever one's attitude to smart phones, they can join the list of inventions that have dramatically changed social behavior. Other contenders might be: railways, cars, airplanes, telegraph and public telephones.

Art Lieberman

I both love and hate this article.

thee 你（古英语；相当于you）

revolutionary 革命性的

displace 取代

alarm clock 闹钟

guitar tuner 吉他调音器/调音师

calculator 计算器

atlas 地图册

dictaphone 录音笔

weatherman 天气预报员

fraction 分数；小部分

satirical 讽刺的

applicable 适用的

pathetic 可怜的；可悲的

cellular service 蜂窝服务；移动通信服务

screen shot 截屏

contender 竞争者

telegraph 电报

public telephone 公共电话

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