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Windows 95, which was released in 1995, became the most successful operating system ever, and Macintosh sales began to collapse.
1995年8月發布的Windows 95成為有史以來最成功的操作系統，而麥金塔的銷售量開始暴跌。
"Microsoft simply ripped off what other people did," Jobs later said.
“微軟只是剽竊他人的成果，然后堅持下去，利用它對IBM兼容機的控制。”喬布斯后來說，
"Apple deserved it. After I left, it didn't invent anything new. The Mac hardly improved. It was a sitting duck for Microsoft."
“蘋果也是活該。我離開后，它沒有發明任何新東西。Mac幾乎沒有改進。面對微軟，它只能坐以待斃。”
His frustration with Apple was evident when he gave a talk to a Stanford Business School club at the home of a student,
喬布斯對蘋果的沮喪是顯而易見的。有一次，他在一個學生家里給斯坦福商學院俱樂部成員演講，
who asked him to sign a Macintosh keyboard.
那個學生請他在一個麥金塔的鍵盤上簽名。
Jobs agreed to do so if he could remove the keys that had been added to the Mac after he left.
喬布斯說，如果能把他離開蘋果后加到Mac上的鍵都拿掉，就可以簽名。
He pulled out his car keys and pried off the four arrow cursor keys, which he had once banned,
他拿出汽車鑰匙，摳掉了他曾經禁止使用的四個箭頭光標按鍵，
as well as the top row of F1, F2, F3...function keys.
還有最上面一行的“FI 、 F2 、F3……”等功能鍵。
"I'm changing the world one keyboard at a time," he deadpanned. Then he signed the mutilated keyboard.
“我在一次一個鍵盤地改變世界。”他面無表情地說。然后他在殘缺不全的鍵盤上簽了名。
During his 1995 Christmas vacation in Kona Village, Hawaii,
1995年圣誕節，在夏威夷的康娜度假村休假時，
Jobs went walking along the beach with his friend Larry Ellison, the irrepressible Oracle chairman.
喬布斯跟他的朋友甲骨文強勢的董事長拉里·埃利森在海灘散步。
They discussed making a takeover bid for Apple and restoring Jobs as its head.
他們討論收購蘋果，然后讓喬布斯回去重掌大局。
Ellison said he could line up $3 billion in financing:
埃利森說他可以安排30億美元的融資。
"I will buy Apple, you will get 25% of it right away for being CEO, and we can restore it to its past glory."
“我會買下蘋果，你作為CEO會立即獲得25%的股份，我們可以重現它過去的輝煌。”
But Jobs demurred. "I decided I'm not a hostile-takeover kind of guy," he explained.
但是喬布斯卻表示反對。“我認定我不是那種能做惡意收購的人，”他解釋說，
"If they had asked me to come back, it might have been different."
“如果他們請我回去，那就不一樣了。”
