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Jobs's vision that your computer could become your digital hub
喬布斯關(guān)于“計算機將成為數(shù)字中樞”這個設想，
went back to a technology called FireWire, which Apple developed in the early 1990s.
要追溯到蘋果公司在20世紀90年代初開發(fā)的“火線”技術(shù)。
It was a high-speed serial port that moved digital files such as video from one device to another.
火線是一條高速的串口，能夠?qū)?shù)字文件（比如視頻）從一臺設備快速轉(zhuǎn)移到另一臺設備。
Japanese camcorder makers adopted it,
日本的攝像機制造商采用了這一技術(shù)，
and Jobs decided to include it on the updated versions of the iMac that came out in October 1999.
之后喬布斯決定把火線用在1999年10月上市的新版iMac上。
He began to see that FireWire could be part of a system that moved video from cameras onto a computer,
他開始預見到，火線將成為蘋果系統(tǒng)的一部分，用來把視頻文件從攝像機中轉(zhuǎn)移到計算機上，
where it could be edited and distributed.
然后再進行編輯和發(fā)布。
To make this work, the iMac needed to have great video editing software.
為了讓這一功能得以實現(xiàn)，iMac需要有一款出色的視頻編輯軟件。
So Jobs went to his old friends at Adobe, the digital graphics company,
為此，喬布斯決定去Adobe公司找他的老朋友，Adobe是一家出品數(shù)字圖像軟件的公司，
and asked them to make a new Mac version of Adobe Premiere, which was popular on Windows computers.
他請他們制作一款適用于新的Mac版本的Adobe Premiere軟件，當時這一軟件在Windows系統(tǒng)中很流行。
Adobe's executives stunned Jobs by flatly turning him down.
可是，Adobe公司高層斷然拒絕了他，這讓喬布斯備受打擊。
The Macintosh, they said, had too few users to make it worthwhile.
他們說：“麥金塔的用戶太少，要單獨為它做一個軟件不太劃算。”
Jobs was furious and felt betrayed.
喬布斯憤怒了，覺得自己遭到了背叛。
"I put Adobe on the map, and they screwed me," he later claimed.
他后來跟我說：“我讓Adobe出了名，他們卻這樣對待我。”
Adobe made matters even worse when it also didn't write its other popular programs, such as Photoshop, for the Mac OSX,
Adobe隨后又拒絕為Mac OSX系統(tǒng)定制其他的流行軟件，比如Photoshop，
even though the Macintosh was popular among designers and other creative people who used those applications.
即使麥金塔電腦在使用這類軟件的設計師和創(chuàng)意人士中非常受歡迎。整個局面更加糟糕了。
