????1984年的麥金塔（Macintosh）有MacPaint；2007年的iPhone有可視語音信箱（visual voicemail）和谷歌（Google）地圖；而iPhone 4有FaceTime。

????日前，史蒂夫?喬布斯在介紹iPad 2時，向大家展示了兩段重量級演示。其中，iMovie非常酷，不過iPad版GarageBand才是蘋果（Apple）新的必備應用。

????根據(jù)蘋果日前發(fā)布的新聞稿，售價4.99美元的GarageBand將在上周四晚些時候提供下載。與此同時，蘋果還在網(wǎng)站上發(fā)布了一段精彩的演示教程。

????最新更新：iPad版GarageBand和iPad版iMovie已經(jīng)能夠下載。

????我們現(xiàn)在并不清楚真正的音樂家會否使用GarageBand去創(chuàng)造美妙的音樂。我們也不清楚這一代夢想成為音樂家的人們，是否會使用這種“智能型樂器”，而不用再費苦工去學習演奏真正的樂器。

????不過GarageBand確實是一款殺手級應用。

????GarageBand也能在老版iPad上運行，不過在iPad 2上，它運行得更棒。

????譯者：項航

????The 1984 Macintosh had MacPaint. The 2007 iPhone had visual voicemail and Google Maps. The iPhone 4 had FaceTime.

????Steve Jobs offered two tent-pole demos last week when he introduced the iPad 2. iMovie was cool, but GarageBand for the iPad is Apple's (AAPL) new must-have app.

????According to a press release issued Thursday, the $4.99 program will be available for download before the end of the day. Meanwhile, the company has posted a slick guided tour here.

????UPDATE: GarageBand for iPad and iMovie for iPad are now available for download.

????It's too soon to know whether real musicians will use the app to create great music. Or whether a generation of would-be musicians will use its "smart instruments" and avoid the hard work of learning how to play a real one.

????But it does make a killer demo.

????GarageBand runs on the original iPad, but it runs better on the iPad 2.