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Ames had just lost a boardroom battle to have his corporation's AOL division improve its own fledgling music download service.
艾姆斯之前在一次董事會會議中提出，希望集團的AOL部門能夠提升他們剛起步的音樂下載服務，但沒有獲得支持。
"When I did a digital download using AOL, I could never find the song on my shitty computer," he recalled.
他回憶道：“當我用AOL下載了歌曲，我在我那臺爛電腦上怎么也找不到這首歌。”
So when Jobs demonstrated a prototype of the iTunes Store, Ames was impressed.
所以，當喬布斯展示了iTunes商店的雛形時，艾姆斯大為震撼。
"Yes, yes, that's exactly what we've been waiting for," he said.
他說：“對，對，這恰恰是我們一直期待的模式。”
He agreed that Warner Music would sign up, and he offered to help enlist other music companies.
他同意華納音樂加入，并負責聚攏其他的音樂公司。
Jobs flew east to show the service to other Time Warner execs.
喬布斯飛到美國東部，向時代華納的其他高層展示iTunes服務。
"He sat in front of a Mac like a kid with a toy," Vidich recalled.
維迪奇回憶道：“他坐在一臺蘋果機前，就像是一個孩子在玩他心愛的玩具。
"Unlike any other CEO, he was totally engaged with the product."
和其他CEO不同，他對他的產(chǎn)品全心投入。”
Ames and Jobs began to hammer out the details of the iTunes Store,
艾姆斯和喬布斯開始敲定iTunes商店的一些細節(jié)，
including the number of times a track could be put on different devices and how the copy-protection system would work.
包括一首歌曲能被下載到不同設(shè)備上的次數(shù)，以及防復制系統(tǒng)怎么運作。
They soon were in agreement and set out to corral other music labels.
他們很快就達成了一致，并開始集結(jié)其他的唱片公司。
