20年来12大最具影响力的个人科技产品_BEC初级作文

20年来12大最具影响力的个人科技产品

Second, I chose these 12 because each changed the course of digital history by influencing the products and services that followed, or by changing the way people lived and worked. In some cases, the impact of these mass-market products is still unfolding. All of these products had predecessors, but they managed to take their categories to a new level.

其次，我之所以选择这12个产品，是因为所有这些产品都改变了数码历史的进程，它们要么影响了后来追随而至的产品和服务，要么改变了人们的生活和工作方式。在某些情况下，这些大众产品仍在释放影响力。所有这些产品都有“前辈”，但它们做到了将其所属类别提升至一个新高度。

Some readers will complain that Apple is overrepresented. My answer: Apple introduced more influential, breakthrough products for average consumers than any other company over the years of this column.

一些读者可能会抱怨说，苹果(Apple)产品出现的频率过高。对此我的解释是，在我撰写本专栏的这些年里，相比其他任何一家公司，苹果面向普通消费者推出了更多具有影响力和突破性的产品。

1. Newton MessagePad (1993)

This hand-held computer from Apple was a failure, even a joke, mainly because the company promised it could flawlessly recognize handwriting. It didn't. But it had one feature that foreshadowed some of today's most cutting-edge technology: an early form of artificial intelligence. You could scrawl 'lunch with Linda Jones on Thursday' and it would create a calendar entry for the right time with the right person.