Name: Top 10 Facts About Apple Computers You Never Knew
Uploaded: 2026-04-01T17:04:16.000Z
Duration: 15 min 57 s

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And I'd like to, uh, announce one of our first partnerships today, a very, very meaningful one, and

而且我今天要宣佈一個我們第一個，也是一個非常、非常有意義的合作夥伴關係，

today we're counting down our picks for the Apple facts that revealed just how strange, bold, and

今天我們要來倒數計算，我們選出的 Apple 相關事實，揭露了這間公司崛起的過程有多麼奇特、大膽，

That 10% today would be worth $22 billion if he was still there.

如果他還在的話，那 10% 的股份現在價值 220 億美元。

What, what, what happened with Ron Wayne?

Number 10: the original Macintosh mouse only had one button.

第 10 名：初代 Macintosh 滑鼠只有一個按鈕。

It does all the things you'd expect a business computer to do.

它能做所有你期望的商務電腦該做的事。

It does a lot of things you wouldn't expect a business computer to do.

它還能做許多你意想不到的商務電腦該做的事。

And it does some things no other business computer has ever done before.

而且它還能做其他商務電腦從未做過的事。

When the Macintosh burst onto the scene in 1984, it revolutionized personal computing with its graphical user interface making computers accessible to millions.

1984 年 Macintosh 橫空出世，以其圖形使用者介面徹底改變了個人電腦，讓數百萬人得以接觸電腦。

A key component of this paradigm shift was its sleek, cream-colored mouse.

這個典範轉移的關鍵組成部分是它時尚的奶油色滑鼠。

What many might not realize today, accustomed as we are to multi-button peripherals, is that this groundbreaking device famously featured only a single button.

今天許多人可能沒意識到，習慣了多按鈕周邊設備的我們，這個開創性的裝置竟然只有一個按鈕。

The real genius of Macintosh is that you don't have to be a genius to use it.

Macintosh 的真正天才在於，你不需要是個天才也能使用它。

Macintosh, the computer for the rest of us.

Macintosh，為我們其他人而設計的電腦。

This wasn't an oversight or a technological limitation;

it was a deliberate design philosophy championed by Steve Jobs himself, inspired by minimalist work done at Xerox PARC.

這是由 Steve Jobs 本人倡導的深思熟慮的設計理念，靈感來自 Xerox PARC 的極簡主義工作。

While competitors quickly adopted multi-button mice, Apple steadfastly stuck to its one-button design for decades, only introducing a scroll wheel in 1998 with the multi-button Mighty Mouse in 2005.

儘管競爭對手迅速採用了多按鈕滑鼠，Apple 卻數十年來一直堅持其單按鈕設計，直到 1998 年才推出滾輪，並於 2005 年推出多按鈕的 Mighty Mouse。

It does all the things you'd expect a personal computer to do.

它能做到你期望個人電腦能做到的所有事情。

It does a lot of things you wouldn't expect a personal computer to do.

它能做到許多你意想不到的個人電腦能做到的事情。

And it does some things no other computer has ever done before.

而且它還能做到其他電腦從未做過的事情。

Number 9: the Lisa computer was named after Steve Jobs' daughter.

第九名：Lisa 電腦是以 Steve Jobs 的女兒命名的。

When Apple invented the personal computer, we were all alone in the world.

當 Apple 發明個人電腦時，我們是全世界唯一。

But soon it seemed that everybody was trying to build a better Apple.

但很快似乎每個人都在試圖打造更好的 Apple。

Lisa from Apple, so advanced it puts us right back where we started: alone again.

Apple 的 Lisa，如此先進，讓我們回到了原點：再次孤單。

Long before the Macintosh, Apple launched another graphical user interface computer, the Lisa, in 1983.

在 Macintosh 推出很久以前，Apple 於 1983 年推出了另一款圖形使用者介面電腦，也就是 Lisa。

This machine, though commercially unsuccessful, was a technological marvel for its time, featuring protected memory, multitasking, and

這臺電腦雖然商業上不成功，但對當時來說卻是一項技術上的奇蹟，具備受保護的記憶體、多工處理，以及

Well, I think Lisa, uh, as compared with existing computers, is, is the difference between today's car and yesterday's car.

嗯，我認為 Lisa，呃，跟現有的電腦相比，就像是今天的汽車和昨天的汽車之間的差異。

Yesterday's car was a bit the get-out-and-get-under technique; you had to know how the car works.

昨天的汽車有點像是需要動手動腳的技術；你必須知道汽車是如何運作的。

When I get in the car in the morning, I want to put my key in and go, and, and

當我早上開車時，我只想把鑰匙插進去然後出發，

And, uh, that's what the do that's what Lisa brings to the computer world: the ability to sit down and not even understand what's going on in the machine.

而，呃，這就是 Lisa 為電腦世界帶來的：能夠坐下來，甚至不需要了解機器裡發生了什麼事。

But beyond its technical specifications, the Lisa holds a deeply personal and initially controversial connection to Steve Jobs.

但除了它的技術規格之外，Lisa 與 Steve Jobs 之間還有一種非常個人且最初頗具爭議的連結。

It was named after his first child, Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs.

它的名字取自他第一個孩子 Lisa Nicole Brennan-Jobs。

For years, Jobs publicly denied paternity, even claiming the name was an acronym for Local Integrated Software Architecture.

多年來，賈伯斯公開否認是孩子的父親，甚至聲稱這個名字是「Local Integrated Software Architecture」的縮寫。

However, the truth eventually came out, most notably in Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, where Jobs himself admitted the machine was indeed named for his daughter.

不過，真相最終還是大白了，尤其是在 Walter Isaacson 撰寫的賈伯斯傳記中，賈伯斯本人承認這臺機器確實是以他女兒的名字命名的。

Behind my back at the office, you know what it stood for?

在我背後，你知道它代表什麼嗎？

當然，它是以妳的名字命名的。

Local Integrated System Architecture doesn't even mean anything.

Local Integrated System Architecture 根本沒有任何意義。

Number 8: the original Apple logo featured Isaac Newton.

數字 8：最初的 Apple Logo 是以艾薩克·牛頓為原型。

Generally, uh, most companies have their logo as just a logotype.

一般來說，呃，大部分公司都只有一個標誌，也就是文字標誌。

And, uh, every once in a while, a company, uh, has a logo that's sort of a little jewel, a symbol.

然後，呃，偶爾會有一家公司，呃，它的 Logo 比較像是一個小寶石，一個符號。

Before the sleek, instantly recognizable bitten Apple became synonymous with innovation and design, Apple's very first logo was a remarkably intricate and surprisingly old-fashioned illustration, designed by the third co-founder, Ronald Wayne, in 1976, but

在那個簡潔、辨識度極高的咬了一口的 Apple 標誌成為創新與設計的代名詞之前，Apple 最初的 Logo 其實是一幅相當複雜且出乎意料的老式插畫，由第三位共同創辦人 Ronald Wayne 在 1976 年設計，但

This initial emblem depicted none other than Sir Isaac Newton sitting beneath an apple tree, seemingly just moments before his legendary discovery of gravity.

這個最初的標誌描繪的正是艾薩克·牛頓爵士，坐在蘋果樹下，似乎就在他發現萬有引力傳奇時刻的前一刻。

However, this complex illustration proved impractical for various implications, especially its smaller size or in black and white.

然而，這幅複雜的插畫因為各種原因，尤其是尺寸較小或黑白印刷時，被證明不夠實用。

Steve Jobs quickly realized it needed to be replaced, and

Steve Jobs 很快就意識到需要更換它，

within a year, the iconic rainbow-striped bitten Apple designed by Rob Yanoff took its place, forever cementing a cleaner, more modern identity for the nascent company.

並且在一年之內，由 Rob Yanoff 設計的標誌性彩虹條紋咬了一口的 Apple 取而代之，為這家新創公司永遠確立了更簡潔、更現代的形象。

而在 Apple，我們也有這樣的標誌。

Matter of fact, at Apple, it was very rare because the symbol was the name of the company.

事實上，在 Apple，這非常少見，因為那個符號就是公司的名字。

Number 7: Susan Care designed many original Mac icons and fonts.

第七名：Susan Care 設計了許多原始的 Mac 圖示和字體。

There's 1,000 little dots in half an inch, and

you have the capacity, either real or magnified, to turn off and on each one of those dots.

你就有能力，無論是真實的還是放大的，去開啟或關閉每一個點。

So in a screen that's fairly big, or a piece of paper 8 and 1/2 by 11, you've just got so many scads of dots.

所以在一個相當大的螢幕上，或是一張 8.5x11 吋的紙上，你就有這麼多密密麻麻的點。

There's nothing, really, that you can't present on that screen.

螢幕上幾乎沒有什麼是你不能呈現的。

If you've ever used a Macintosh, you've almost certainly encountered the delightful, user-friendly graphical elements designed by Susan Care.

如果你用過 Macintosh，你幾乎一定會遇到由 Susan Care 設計的令人愉悅、使用者友善的圖形元素。

Hired by Apple in 1982 to work on the Macintosh team, Care, with a background in art and calligraphy, brought a profoundly human touch to the cold, impersonal world of early computing.

Care 於 1982 年被 Apple 聘用，參與 Macintosh 團隊的工作，她擁有藝術和書法背景，為早期電腦冰冷、不個人化的世界帶來了深刻的人性化觸感。

She meticulously crafted many of the original Mac icons, bitmap fonts, and

她精心製作了許多原始的 Mac 圖示、點陣字體，以及

user interface elements that gave the operating system its approachable and distinctive personality.

賦予這個作業系統親切且獨特個性的使用者介面元素。

And it's not that I wouldn't show things to lots of people, but

並不是說我不會把東西展示給很多人看，

I think there were some there was some intuition behind some of the decisions that were made about what icons to use, um, as opposed to a lot of data.

但我想有些決定，像是要用哪些圖示，背後有某種直覺，而不是很多數據。

And that was probably a good match for me.

Her innovative use of pixel art allowed her to create universally understandable visual metaphors that made the Mac incredibly intuitive.

她創新的像素藝術運用，讓她創造出普世都能理解的視覺隱喻，讓 Mac 變得非常直覺。

Monaco also sprang from her creative vision, becoming crucial components of the Mac's visual language.

Monaco 這類字體也源自她的創意視野，成為 Mac 視覺語言的關鍵組成部分。

All you do to print, unlike most computers where you, you know, con hit a Control key and a Print key sequence, you just, uh, hit one button.

你要列印，不像大多數電腦，你必須同時按下一個控制鍵和一個列印鍵，你只需要，呃，按一個按鈕。

它寫著「列印」，然後它就列印了。

And you can actually BillMate it so you can watch on the screen the whole document gradually being printed and follow your progress.

你甚至可以 BillMate 它，這樣你就可以在螢幕上看到整個文件逐漸被列印出來，並追蹤你的進度。

We're going to show you some of the neatest apps that have ever been created for any desktop platform.

我們要來介紹一些有史以來為任何桌面平臺所創造過最棒的應用程式。

We're going to show you the best color that's ever been, and

我們要來介紹史上最棒的顏色，

we're going to talk about what we think is going to be the most important new application area of the 1990s called interpersonal computing.

然後我們要來聊聊我們認為將會是 90 年代最重要的全新應用領域，叫做「人際運算」。

One of the most pivotal and perhaps surprising chapters in Apple's history is the very foundation upon which its modern operating system, macOS, formerly macOS X, is built.

Apple 歷史上最關鍵、或許也最令人驚訝的篇章之一，就是其現代作業系統 macOS（先前稱為 macOS X）的建構基礎。

This robust and powerful architecture didn't originate within Apple's Cupertino walls, but

這套強大穩固的架構並非源自 Apple 位於 Cupertino 的總部，

rather from NextStep, the advanced object-oriented, Unix-based operating system developed by Next, Inc.

而是來自 NextStep，這是由 NeXT, Inc. 開發的先進物件導向、基於 Unix 的作業系統。

People told us they loved NextStep and that it was three, four, five years ahead of anything else they'd ever seen in the industry.

人們告訴我們他們很喜歡 NextStep，而且它比他們在業界見過的任何東西都超前了三、四年。

And they loved the fact that we built it on top of Unix, because together this gave them the multitasking that they really wanted, it gave them the transparent networking that they needed, it gave them the object-oriented development environment so that they could build applications in a third of the time.

他們也很喜歡我們建構在 Unix 之上，因為這樣結合起來，他們就能獲得真正想要的任務多工處理、他們需要的透明網路，以及物件導向的開發環境，讓他們能用三分之一的時間開發應用程式。

This was the company Steve Jobs founded after his dramatic departure from Apple in 1985.

這就是 Steve Jobs 在 1985 年戲劇性離開 Apple 後所創立的公司。

When Apple was struggling in the mid-1990s to modernize its aging classic macOS, it embarked on a desperate search for a new operating system.

1990 年代中期，當 Apple 在現代化其老舊的經典 macOS 時，他們展開了一場對新作業系統的迫切尋找。

Apple made the monumental decision in 1996 to acquire Next, primarily to bring Jobs back and, critically, to adopt NextStep as the basis for its next-generation OS.

Apple 在 1996 年做出了收購 NeXT 的重大決定，主要是為了讓 Jobs 回歸，並且至關重要的是，採用 NextStep 作為其下一代 OS 的基礎。

The Next team certainly looks forward to being integrated into Apple and to working with all the great people at Apple to come up with a next-generation system, uh, that I think is going to be truly a breakthrough.

NeXT 的團隊當然很期待能整合到 Apple，並與 Apple 所有優秀的同事們一起打造一個我認為將是真正突破性的下一代系統。

And the great thing about it is that you can get your hands on it today to start developing applications so that when we start shipping this stuff in less than a year, uh, your applications can be ready to roll on it.

最棒的地方是，你今天就可以開始開發應用程式，這樣當我們在不到一年的時間內開始出貨這些產品時，你的應用程式就能準備好上線了。

The heart of the G4 Cube is incredibly complex.

我的意思是，它是一臺超級電腦。

But we were looking for, uh, a final design that was very simple, a, a design that left you with a sense of, well, of course, that's the most natural, the most elegant solution possible.

但我們在尋找一個非常簡潔的最終設計，一個讓你覺得「當然，這是最自然、最優雅的解決方案」的設計。

In the year 2000, Apple, under Steve Jobs' renewed vision, unveiled the desktop computer that was as much a work of art as it was a technological statement: the Power Mac G4 Cube.

2000 年，在 Steve Jobs 的新願景下，Apple 推出了這臺桌面電腦，它既是一件藝術品，也是一個技術宣言：Power Mac G4 Cube。