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Jobs could be extraordinarily charming when he wanted to be,
喬布斯也可以在自己愿意時表現(xiàn)出超乎尋常的好脾氣，
and he turned it on when Iovine flew out to Cupertino for a demo.
在約維內(nèi)飛到庫比蒂諾來會面時，他就展露了這一面。
"See how simple it is?" he asked Iovine.
“看，多簡單。”他對約維內(nèi)說，
"Your tech folks are never going to do this.
“你們的技術(shù)同事永遠不會做這個。
There's no one at the music companies who can make it simple enough."
在唱片公司里沒有人可以把它變得足夠簡單。”
Iovine called Morris right away.
約維內(nèi)馬上給莫里斯打了電話。
"This guy is unique!" he said. "You're right. He's got a turnkey solution."
他說：“這家伙的確與眾不同！你說得沒錯，他有個現(xiàn)成的解決方案。”
They complained about how they had spent two years working with Sony, and it hadn't gone anywhere.
接下來兩人又抱怨了他們是如何在過去兩年里與索尼公司合作，卻一無所獲。
"Sony's never going to figure things out," he told Morris.
約維內(nèi)告訴莫里斯：“索尼永遠解決不了問題。”
They agreed to quit dealing with Sony and join with Apple instead.
他們最終達成一致，終止與索尼的合作，加入蘋果陣營。
"How Sony missed this is completely mind-boggling to me, a historic fuckup," Iovine said.
約維內(nèi)說：“索尼錯過這個好機會的原因讓我簡直不敢相信，這真是個可以記入史冊的大錯。
"Steve would fire people if the divisions didn't work together, but Sony's divisions were at war with one another."
如果部門之間合作不力，史蒂夫會解雇有關(guān)人員，但是索尼內(nèi)部一直搞得一團糟卻沒人出面解決。”
