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Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, showed off their newest device, the Apple Watch. Mr. Cook said it is the "most personal" device Apple has ever created.
The Apple Watch is a miniature, or very small, computer a person wears on his or her wrist. There will be three models with straps to attach them to your wrist. An Apple Watch will be able to do many of the same things as an iPhone. It will show email, texts, news, health readings and other information. These apps will be customized for the watch. It will be different than just seeing what is on your phone.
Like a phone, you will be able to receive calls on your wrist. Mr. Cook smiled while describing this. "I've been wanting to do this since I was five years old," he said. "The day is finally here." Decades ago, a comic strip hero named Dick Tracy talked into his wrist watch, but until now, that has only been something possible in the future.
Mr. Cook also said it is "incredibly intimate." He said you can capture and send your heartbeat to another person with an Apple Watch.
"This is an incredibly intimate way to tell someone that you are thinking about them," he said. "I hope someone sends me one of those.
The crown of the Apple Watch is what sets this Apple product apart from other companies' smartwatches. Like the touch screen on smartphones, the crown controls what you can do. By turning the crown on an Apple Watch, one can zoom in and out, to look at a map, for example.
The watches will be available in stores in late April. They will be sold at different prices, beginning at $349. Mr. Cook called the high-end model, the one made of 18-karat gold, "jaw dropping beautiful." Its price tag will be thousands of dollars.
"The biggest surprise to me was that the price range goes up to $10,000 for the Apple Edition Watch," writes tech blogger Carolyn Nicander Mohr of The Wonder of Tech. "That price is quite steep for technology that may be obsolete in a year."
Apple hopes to excite consumers so they will want to buy and wear computers on their bodies. The first smartwatches from Samsung, Sony and LG have not been selling well. Only five million smartwatches were sold last year, according to Strategy Analytics. Another wearable computer, Google Glass eyewear, is no longer on the market.
Critics say one problem with Apple Watch is that you need an iPhone on your body, or nearby, to make this watch fully functional. Like a phone, it will also need to be charged each night. It remains to be seen whether people really want to carry both a smartphone and a smartwatch.
Apple has overcome skeptics before. Both computer tablets and smartphones were not popular until Apple released the iPad and iPhones.
The announcement today comes after last week's news that Apple will replace AT&T on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The Dow Jones index includes the top 30 companies representing the U.S. economy and markets.
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词汇解释
1.customized adj.客户指定的，定制的（产品）vt.& vi.订做，改制（以满足顾主的需要) v.定制，定做( customize的过去式和过去分词 )
a control that allows photographers to customise the camera's basic settings.
使拍照者能够自定义相机的基本设置的控制按钮
2.intimate adj.亲密的，亲近的； 私人的，个人的； 内部的； 直接的 n.至交； 密友 v.暗示，提示； 宣布，通知
He surprised me with his intimate knowledge of Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer.
他对克尔恺郭尔与叔本华的深刻了解让我很吃惊。
3.jaw-dropping adj.指极度令人惊讶的，给人深刻印象的，或骇人听闻的
One insider who has seen the report said it was pretty jaw-dropping stuff.
一位看过此报道的内部人士说这绝对是令人震惊的爆料。
内容解析
1.The crown of the Apple Watch is what sets this Apple product apart from other companies' smartwatches.
set...apart from
The chair was set apart from the others for the special guest.
给特殊客人坐的椅子与其它椅子分开来了。
Her bright red scarf set her apart from the other girls.
她那鲜红的围巾使她在姑娘中间显得特别引人注目。
参考译文
苹果公司CEO蒂姆·库克展示了最新设备Apple Watch，库克称这是苹果制造的最个性化的设备。
Apple Watch是一台能戴在手腕上的微型电脑，它有搭配不同表带的三款产品。Apple Watch可以实现iPhone的大多数功能，能显示电子邮件、文本、新闻、健康数据等信息，这些应用是为Apple Watch专门定制的，和iPhone上看到的不同。
你可以在手腕上接电话，就像手机那样。库克微笑着描述这个功能，“我5岁时就希望实现这一点了，这一天终于到来了。”几十年前，一位名叫迪克·特雷的连环漫画主角对手腕上的手表讲话，但直到现在，这也只是未来可能实现的。
库克还称它“极其亲密”，你可以用Apple Watch捕捉并发动你的心跳给另一个人。
“这是告诉别人你在想着他们的非常亲密的表达方式，我希望能发送给我他的心跳。”
Apple Watch的表冠将它和其他公司的智能手表区分开来，就像智能手机的触摸屏那样，其表冠能控制你能做的事。转动Apple Watch上的表冠，你就能实现缩放功能，比如看地图时能放大或缩小。
这款手表将于4月下旬在各苹果商店上市，其价格各不相同，起价349美元。库克称这款高端机由18K金制成，“漂亮得让人吃惊”，其标价将达到数千美元。
“对我来说最令人吃惊的是，苹果Edition手表的价格区间上升到一万美元，”The Wonder of Tech网站的科技博主卡罗琳·尼坎德·莫尔写道，“这对于可能一年就过时的科技来说太高了。”
苹果希望能鼓励消费者，这样他们就想购买并佩戴这些电脑在身上。三星、索尼和LG的第一款智能手表都卖得不理想。Strategy Analytics的数据称去年只售出500万台智能手表，另一款可穿戴电脑谷歌Glass眼镜已经退出市场。
Apple Watch的批评者称，要想让这款手表完全实现其功能，使用者就必须有台iPhone在身上或附近。像手机一样，这款手表也需要每晚充电，人们是否需要同时携带智能电话和智能手表还需观察。
苹果以前折服过质疑者，在苹果发布iPad和iPhone之前，平板电脑和智能手机并不流行。
在今天发布之前的上个星期，有新闻称苹果将在道琼斯工业指数上取代AT&T，道琼斯指数包括美国经济和市场中排名前30名的公司。
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