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"You know Steve, he has his own agenda," Sony's CEO Nobuyuki Idei explained to Red Herring editor Tony Perkins.
索尼公司的CEO出井伸之在接受《紅緋魚》雜志的編輯安東尼·帕金斯采訪時說：“你知道史蒂夫，他有自己的打算。
"Although he is a genius, he doesn't share everything with you.
雖然他是個天才，但是他不愿意和別人分享一切。
This is a difficult person to work with if you are a big company.... It is a nightmare."
大公司很難與他合作....那簡直是一場噩夢。”
Howard Stringer, then head of Sony North America, added about Jobs:
索尼公司北美區總裁霍華德·斯金格補充道：
"Trying to get together would frankly be a waste of time."
“說實話，尋求與他合作簡直就是在浪費時間。”
Instead Sony joined with Universal to create a subscription service called Pressplay.
后來，索尼公司和環球音樂集團合作，創建了一個叫做Pressplay的訂閱服務。
Meanwhile, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and EMI teamed up with RealNetworks to create MusicNet.
同時，AOL時代華納、貝塔斯曼及百代唱片和里爾網絡合作，推出了MusicNet。
Neither would license its songs to the rival service, so each offered only about half the music available.
這兩個平臺都不會把自己的歌曲授權給對方，所以它們各自擁有一半的資源。
Both were subscription services that allowed customers to stream songs but not keep them,
而且它們僅為用戶提供播放功能，不提供下載，
so you lost access to them if your subscription lapsed.
所以如果你的訂閱過期了，就無法再訪問。
They had complicated restrictions and clunky interfaces.
另外，它們還有諸多復雜的限制條款和笨拙的界面。
Indeed they would earn the dubious distinction of becoming number nine on PC World's list of "the 25 worst tech products of all time."
事實上，這兩款軟件因為“不分伯仲”，在《計算機世界》雜志評選出來的“歷史上最差的25款科技產品”中并列第九。
The magazine declared, "The services' stunningly brain-dead features showed that the record companies still didn't get it."
雜志上這樣寫道：“這些產品驚人的愚蠢功能說明唱片公司仍然沒有理解用戶需求。”
