This weekend's launch of Apple's iPad in the US – with an international debut expected later in the month – will be a polarising moment. The television news will linger on the queues outside Apple stores, and fans will be seen drooling over these latest shiny objects of techno-lust. Doubters, meanwhile, will point out that general purpose tablet-style computers such as this have always bombed before – and if the touch-screen interface is so revolutionary, why is Apple going to sell an old-fashioned keyboard to plug into it?
当苹果公司(Apple)本周末在美国推出iPad(预计本月晚些时候在国际市场推出)时,将引发两种截然不同的反应。电视新闻会把镜头长时间对准苹果专卖店外的长队,以及苹果粉丝们是如何垂涎于这些亮丽的、吸引科技迷们的新产品。而与此同时,怀疑人士则会指出,这类多功能平板电脑以往在市场中一直遭遇惨败——而且,如果触摸屏界面真的如此具有革命性,那么苹果公司为何还打算出售供iPad外接的老式键盘呢?