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Fadell and Rubinstein were fated to clash because they both thought that they had fathered the iPod.
法德爾和魯賓斯坦注定要發生沖突，因為他們都認為自己是iPod之父。
As Rubinstein saw it, he had been given the mission by Jobs months earlier,
從魯賓斯坦的角度來看，喬布斯早在項目開始的幾個月前就給他布置了任務，
found the Toshiba disk drive, and figured out the screen, battery, and other key elements.
他找到了東芝的硬盤，又確定了顯示屏、電池和其他重要元件，
He had then brought in Fadell to put it together.
然后他讓法德爾把這些組合起來。
He and others who resented Fadell's visibility began to refer to him as "Tony Baloney."
他和其他人都很討厭法德爾這種處處邀功的行為，所以戲稱他為“夸夸其談的家伙”。
But from Fadell's perspective, before he came to Apple he had already come up with plans for a great MP3 player,
但是法德爾認為，在他來到蘋果公司以前自己就已經有了MP3的計劃，
and he had been shopping it around to other companies before he had agreed to come to Apple.
而且他已經在其他公司兜售了一圈，最后才同意加入蘋果。
The issue of who deserved the most credit for the iPod, or should get the title Podfather,
關于他們誰對iPod的功勞最大、誰能落得“iPod之父”的稱號，
would be fought over the years in interviews, articles, web pages, and even Wikipedia entries.
在此后多年的各類采訪、文章、網頁，甚至是維基百科中，一直爭論不休。
But for the next few months they were too busy to bicker.
但是在最初的幾個月里，他們忙得沒有時間吵架。
Jobs wanted the iPod out by Christmas, and this meant having it ready to unveil in October.
喬布斯希望iPod能在圣誕節之前上市，也就是說，在10月就要準備好發布。
They looked around for other companies that were designing MP3 players
他們研究了其他正在設計MP3的公司，
that could serve as the foundation for Apple's work and settled on a small company named PortalPlayer.
想找到一家能夠為蘋果公司提供基礎服務的，最后鎖定了一家叫PortalPlayer的小公司。
Fadell told the team there, "This is the project that's going to remold Apple,
法德爾告訴PortalPlayer的團隊：“這個項目將會改造整個蘋果公司，
and ten years from now, it's going to be a music business, not a computer business."
而且十年之后，蘋果公司將成為音樂公司，而不再是計算機公司。”
He convinced them to sign an exclusive deal, and his group began to modify PortalPlayer's deficiencies,
他說服他們簽下了獨家協議，然后他們就開始修正PortalPlayer的一些缺陷，
such as its complex interfaces, short battery life, and inability to make a playlist longer than ten songs.
包括復雜的界面、較短的待機時間，以及只能容納十首歌曲的小播放列表。
