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The most visible decision he made was to kill, once and for all, the Newton,
喬布斯作的最高調的決定，就是徹底地扼殺牛頓項目，
the personal digital assistant with the almost-good handwriting-recognition system.
就是那個帶有不錯的手寫識別系統的個人數字助理。
Jobs hated it because it was Sculley's pet project,
喬布斯討厭它，因為它是斯卡利最喜歡的項目，
because it didn't work perfectly, and because he had an aversion to stylus devices.
因為它不完美，也因為他討厭手寫設備。
He had tried to get Amelio to kill it early in 1997 and succeeded only in convincing him to try to spin off the division.
早在1997年初他就試圖讓阿梅里奧砍掉它，但只成功地說服他解散了這個部門。
By late 1997, when Jobs did his product reviews, it was still around.
到1997年末，喬布斯作產品評估時，發現它還在。
He later described his thinking: If Apple had been in a less precarious situation,
他后來這樣描述這個決定：如果蘋果當時的處境沒有那么危險，
I would have drilled down myself to figure out how to make it work.
我可能會鉆進去研究怎么改進它。
I didn't trust the people running it.
我不信任這個項目的負責人。
My gut was that there was some really good technology, but it was fucked up by mismanagement.
我強烈地感覺到它有真正優秀的技術，但是因為管理不善槁砸了。
By shutting it down, I freed up some good engineers who could work on new mobile devices.
停掉它，我就解放了一些優秀的工程師，他們可以去開發新的移動設備。
And eventually we got it right when we moved on to iPhones and the iPad.
最終我們走對了路，做出了iPhone和iPad。
