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Gates and NeXT
蓋茨和NeXT
Bill Gates was not a soul mate.
比爾·蓋茨跟喬布斯性情并不相投。
Jobs had convinced him to produce software applications for the Macintosh,
喬布斯曾說服蓋茨為麥金塔做軟件應用，
which had turned out to be hugely profitable for Microsoft.
最后給微軟帶來了豐厚利潤。
But Gates was one person who was resistant to Jobs's reality distortion field,
但是，比爾·蓋茨抗拒喬布斯的現實扭曲力場，
and as a result he decided not to create software tailored for the NeXT platform.
因此，他決定不為NeXT平臺開發專門軟件。
Gates went to California to get periodic demonstrations, but each time he came away unimpressed.
蓋茨會定期到加利福尼亞州看NeXT的演示，但是每次他都不以為然。
"The Macintosh was truly unique,
“麥金塔真的是獨一無二，
but I personally don't understand what is so unique about Steve's new computer," he told Fortune.
但是我個人不太理解史蒂夫的新電腦有什么特別之處。”蓋茨對《財富》雜志表示。
Part of the problem was that the rival titans were congenitally unable to be deferential to each other.
造成這種情況的部分原因在于，這兩位彼此競爭的巨頭無法做到互相恭敬。
When Gates made his first visit to NeXT's Palo Alto headquarters, in the summer of 1987,
1987年夏天，蓋茨第一次造訪NeXT公司位于帕洛奧圖的總部，
Jobs kept him waiting for a half hour in the lobby,
喬布斯讓他在大堂里等了半個小時，
even though Gates could see through the glass walls that Jobs was walking around having casual conversations.
蓋茨甚至透過玻璃墻看到了喬布斯只是在里面走來走去地閑談。
"I'd gone down to NeXT and I had the Odwalla, the most expensive carrot juice, and I'd never seen tech offices so lavish,"
“我到NeXT，喝了最貴的奧德瓦拉牌胡蘿卜汁，見識了如此豪華的科技企業辦公室，”
Gates recalled, shaking his head with just a hint of a smile.
蓋茨回憶道，帶著一抹笑容搖了搖頭，
"And Steve comes a half hour late to the meeting."
“我們的會面史蒂夫遲到了半個小時。”
