有声英语故事连载：《名人传记》之乔布斯 第59期

故事连载

 

Steve: You don’t really want to hear about NeXT, do you?

Steve: 你大概没兴趣听我聊NeXT吧?

Yes, I do.

我想听。

You do? Okay, well... maybe the best things take so much time, I just tell you what NeXT is today.

好吧。我直接说NeXT目前在做什么吧

There hasn’t been … clearly the innovation of computer industry is happening in software right now,

很显然，计算机产业创新要靠软件

and there hasn’t been a revolution in how we create software in a long... (sneeze) Sorry.

但是长久以来，软件开发方式没有本质变化。对不起

 

The innovation in the industry is in software, and there hasn’t ever been a real revolution how we created software, certainly nonetheless in 20 years.

软件开发方式20年来一直没有变化

As a matter of fact, it’s getting worse.

不但没有变化，反而越来越糟

Well, Macintosh was a revolution for the end users to make it easier to use,

降低了用户的使用难度，这是一项创举

it was the opposite for the developer, the developer pays the price,

但增加了程序员的工作难度

and the software got more complicated to write,

软件开发越来越复杂

as it became easier to use for the end user, so software is impetrating everything we do these days, in businesses software is one of the most important pop competitive weapons.

软件正在向各行各业渗透，成为重要的商业竞争武器

I mean it’s the most successful business war was MCI friends and family in the last 10 years, and what was that?

MCI与AT&T十年来的竞争是就是最好的例证，MCI做了什么?

 

It was a brilliant idea it was custom-billing software.

不过是率先采用客户账单软件

AT&T didn’t respond for 18 months yielding millions of dollars for the market share to MCI.

18个月内就抢走了AT&T数百万美元的市场份额

Not because they are stupid, but because they couldn’t get the billing software done.

AT&T并非毫不知情，可就是搞不定客户账单软件

So in ways like that, in smaller ways, software is becoming an incredible force in this world,

软件正在释放不可思议的力量

to provide new goods and services to people whether it’s over the Internet or what have you, software is going to be a major enabler in our society.

新的软件产品和软件服务将改变我们的社会