沃尔特·莫斯伯格是一名美国记者。他在现代、以消费者为中心的技术评论和评论方面的开创性工作广受赞誉。从1991年到2013年，他是《华尔街日报》的首席科技专栏作家。他还共同创立了AllThingsD、Recode和D及Code会议。
Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.
几乎所有的智能手机、平板电脑和笔记本电脑都是在中国工厂制造的，即使它们是在中国设计的。
How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.
你对现代多点触控平板电脑的看法在很大程度上取决于你认为史蒂夫•乔布斯和苹果公司在2010年开始着手对iPad做什么。如果你认为他打算制造更大的智能手机或完全取代Mac和PC，那你就错了。
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
我一天要用很多次iPad，它使我对笔记本电脑的使用量减少了一半以上。
I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
我相信平板电脑——尤其是iPad——对于消费者、学校和企业来说都是非常通用和高效的工具，而且比PC或智能手机更适合于许多任务。
What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
智能手机能为我做些什么，让人们出去再买一部呢？
Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?
智能手机已经开始成熟了吗？
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
大家都知道苹果在移动时代压垮了微软。但在20世纪80年代和90年代的个人电脑战争中，情况恰恰相反。
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
尽管许多人错误地认为IBM在1981年推出了第一台个人电脑，但appleii还是在四年前的1977年问世。