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Tony Fadell was a brash entrepreneurial programmer
托尼·法德爾是一個傲慢的程序設計師，也是一個創業者，
with a cyberpunk look and an engaging smile who had started three companies while still at the University of Michigan.
他喜歡打扮成賽博朋克的造型，卻總是面帶迷人的微笑，當他還是密歇根大學學生的時候，就已經創立了三家公司。
He had gone to work at the handheld device maker General Magic (where he met Apple refugees Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson),
他曾在一家制造手提設備的公司通用魔力工作，在那里他結識了曾經逃出蘋果的安迪·赫茨菲爾德和比爾·阿特金森，
and then spent some awkward time at Philips Electronics,
接著他還在飛利浦電子混跡了一段日子，
where he bucked the staid culture with his short bleached hair and rebellious style.
那時他為了抵制保守古板的文化而留著漂白的短發，打扮成反叛者的造型。
He had come up with some ideas for creating a better digital music player,
后來，他想出了一些關于制造更好的數字音樂播放器的點子，
which he had shopped around unsuccessfully to RealNetworks, Sony, and Philips.
他走遍了里爾網絡，索尼和飛利浦推銷他的創意，但沒有人買賬。
One day he was in Colorado, skiing with an uncle, and his cell phone rang while he was riding on the chairlift.
一天，他到科羅拉多州的范爾去和他的叔叔滑雪，正坐在升降機上的時候，手機響了。
It was Rubinstein, who told him that Apple was looking for someone who could work on a "small electronic device."
電話是魯賓斯坦打來的，他說蘋果公司正在尋找一個能制造“小型電子設備”的人。
Fadell, not lacking in confidence, boasted that he was a wizard at making such devices.
法德爾絲毫沒有膽怯，他信心十足地說，自己絕對是制造這種設備的天才。
Rubinstein invited him to Cupertino.
魯賓斯坦便邀請他前往庫比蒂諾。
