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It was not an easy meeting.
會議進行得并不順利。
Vidich had a cold and was losing his voice, so his deputy, Kevin Gage, began the presentation.
維迪奇因為感冒喉嚨嘶啞，所以他讓助理凱文·凱奇來作介紹。
Jobs, sitting at the head of the conference table, fidgeted and looked annoyed.
喬布斯坐在會議桌的主導位置，不耐煩地晃來晃去，看起來還有些憤怒。
After four slides, he waved his hand and broke in.
凱奇講了4頁幻燈片之后，喬布斯擺手打斷了他：
"You have your heads up your asses," he pointed out.
“你們可以自己解決的！”他說道。
Everyone turned to Vidich, who struggled to get his voice working.
所有人都轉過頭來看維迪奇。維迪奇努力地清了清嗓子：
"You're right," he said after a long pause. "We don't know what to do. You need to help us figure it out."
“沒錯。”停頓了很久之后他又說：“但我們不知道該做什么。你要幫助我們找到方向。”
Jobs later recalled being slightly taken aback, and he agreed that Apple would work with the Warner-Sony effort.
喬布斯后來回憶，他當時確實有點兒吃驚。不過他最后同意了讓蘋果公司和華納及索尼合作。
If the music companies had been able to agree on a standardized encoding method for protecting music files,
如果音樂公司達成了一致，為了實現音樂文件保護而開發一個標準化的編碼解碼器，
then multiple online stores could have proliferated.
那么各種網上商店就會激增。
That would have made it hard for Jobs to create an iTunes Store that allowed Apple to control how online sales were handled.
這樣的話，喬布斯要建立一個用來控制網上銷售的iTunes商店就難了。
Sony, however, handed Jobs that opportunity when it decided, after the January 2002 Cupertino meeting,
不過，索尼公司給了喬布斯這個機會。在2002年1月的庫比蒂諾會議之后，
to pull out of the talks because it favored its own proprietary format, from which it would get royalties.
索尼公司決定退出上述計劃，因為它希望擁有自己專有的格式，并可以從中獲得版稅收益。
