Apple's near mythological home computer,

苹果公司近乎神话般的家用电脑
has gotten off to a rocky start

在与业界大鳄IBM的竞争中
in its battle with industry titan IBM.

开局不顺
With sales originally projected to be a million

在第一季度销售量
in the first quarter,

会达到一百万的初始期望下
Apple has sold only 35,000 of the user-friendly machines in the months

在发售后苹果公司几个月里只售出了
since it's been available to customers.

三万五千台这款易操作的电脑
The insistence by Steve Jobs

史蒂夫·乔布斯坚持
that it have what's called end-to-end control,

使用叫做端到端控制的机制
which is a way of saying that it's not compatible

也就是说它和大多数
with most outside hardware or software,

外部硬件和软件都不兼容
is the Shakespearean flaw in a machine that had potential.

这正是此款潜力机型的悲剧缺陷