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Jobs's sales pitch, according to Gates, was simple.
根椐蓋茨的說(shuō)法，喬布斯的推銷說(shuō)辭很簡(jiǎn)單。
"We did the Mac together," Jobs said. "How did that work for you? Very well.
“我們?cè)黄鹱鲞^(guò)Mac項(xiàng)目。”喬布斯說(shuō)，“結(jié)果對(duì)你怎么樣？非常好。
Now, we're going to do this together and this is going to be great."
現(xiàn)在，我們一起做這個(gè)，也會(huì)非常棒。”
But Gates was brutal to Jobs, just as Jobs could be to others.
然而，蓋茨對(duì)喬布斯很殘忍，就像喬布斯對(duì)其他人一樣。
"This machine is crap," he said.
“這款機(jī)器就是垃圾”，他說(shuō)。
"The optical disk has too low latency, the fucking case is too expensive. This thing is ridiculous."
“光驅(qū)的反應(yīng)時(shí)間太長(zhǎng)，機(jī)箱太他媽貴，整個(gè)東西太荒謬。”
He decided then, and reaffirmed on each subsequent visit,
當(dāng)時(shí)蓋茨就決定，并且在隨后的每次到訪都重申了這一點(diǎn)：
that it made no sense for Microsoft to divert resources from other projects to develop applications for NeXT.
微軟不會(huì)分散其他項(xiàng)目的資源來(lái)為NeXT開(kāi)發(fā)應(yīng)用程序，
Worse yet, he repeatedly said so publicly, which made others less likely to spend time developing for NeXT.
更糟的是，他一再公開(kāi)表態(tài)，致使其他軟件公司也不愿意花時(shí)間為NeXT開(kāi)發(fā)軟件。
"Develop for it? I'll piss on it," he told InfoWorld.
“為它開(kāi)發(fā)？我會(huì)在它上面撒尿。”他在《信息世界》上說(shuō)。
When they happened to meet in the hallway at a conference, Jobs started berating Gates for his refusal to do software for NeXT.
兩人碰巧在一次會(huì)議的走廊上遇見(jiàn)時(shí)，喬布斯開(kāi)始因?yàn)樯w茨拒絕為NeXT開(kāi)發(fā)軟件而訓(xùn)斥對(duì)方。
"When you get a market, I will consider it," Gates replied.
“等你有市場(chǎng)的時(shí)候我會(huì)考慮。”蓋茨回答說(shuō)。
Jobs got angry. "It was a screaming battle, right in front of everybody," recalled Adele Goldberg,
喬布斯生氣了。“當(dāng)著周圍所有人的面，他們倆開(kāi)始大聲爭(zhēng)吵。”阿黛爾·戈德堡回憶說(shuō)，
the Xerox PARC engineer. Jobs insisted that NeXT was the next wave of computing.
她是施樂(lè)帕洛奧圖研究中心的工程師，當(dāng)時(shí)也在場(chǎng)。
Gates, as he often did, got more expressionless as Jobs got more heated.
這次爭(zhēng)執(zhí)跟以往一樣，喬布斯越是激動(dòng)，蓋茨就越是一言不發(fā)。
He finally just shook his head and walked away.
最后蓋茨搖搖頭走開(kāi)了。
