This would make no sense if your assumption is that Apple is just another hardware and software maker cultivating an applications ecosystem.

如果你设想苹果仅仅是另一个培养应用生态系统的硬件和软件开发商，那么这将毫无意思。

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Imagine an elastic band stretched over the surface of an apple. The band can slowly shrink, moving as though it is slipping from the surface, until it becomes just a dot on the apple's skin.

试想一下，有一个橡皮圈箍在苹果的表面上，然后这个橡皮圈慢慢的收缩，就像从苹果表面上滑落一般的收缩，直到它变成了一个点。

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Felian: This theory which is due to a fart is just like a theory which is due to an apple.

这是一个屁引发的理论，就像一个苹果引发的理论一样。

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At the same time, he is saying that just by picking an acorn or taking an apple or maybe killing a buffalo on a certain amount of land, that makes it yours because it's your labor and your labor would enclose that land.

同时，洛克说只要在特地土地拾得橡果或摘下苹果,或杀一头水牛，你就拥有了这块土地,因为这是你的劳动，你通过劳动圈定了这块土地。

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This is just one more area where Apple is building up an ecosystem around creating delightful user experiences.

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And the answer, simply and obviously, is that Apple is just too large an organisation to be able to keep things quiet.

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