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In the meantime Jobs and his team -- Rubinstein, Fadell, Robbin, Ive
同時，喬布斯和他的團隊--魯賓斯坦、法德爾、羅賓以及艾弗，
were able to keep coming up with new versions of the iPod that extended Apple's lead.
在不斷地推出新版本的iPod，產品大受歡迎之余，更穩固了蘋果的領先地位。
The first major revision, announced in January 2004, was the iPod Mini.
2004年1月，蘋果宣布了第—項重大的改革--推出iPod mini，
Far smaller than the original iPod -- just the size of a business card
比最初的iPod小很多，和一張名片差不多大，
it had less capacity and was about the same price.
但是容量也更小，價格不變。
At one point Jobs decided to kill it, not seeing why anyone would want to pay the same for less.
有一段時間，喬布斯曾想過放棄這個想法，因為他不理解為什么有人會花同樣的價錢買更小的容量。
"He doesn't do sports, so he didn't relate to how it would be great on a run or in the gym," said Fadell.
法德爾說：“他平時不怎么運動，所以他也不知道iPod mini在跑步或去健身時有多方便。”
In fact the Mini was what truly launched the iPod to market dominance,
事實上，iPod mini真正使iPod站穩了市場，
by eliminating the competition from smaller flash-drive players.
消滅了其他經營小體積閃存播放器的競爭者。
In the eighteen months after it was introduced, Apple's market share in the portable music player market shot from 31% to 74%.
在iPod mini發布的18個月之后，蘋果在便攜式音樂播放器市場中的份額從31%增加到了74%。
The iPod Shuffle, introduced in January 2005, was even more revolutionary.
2005年1月，蘋果引入了iPod Shuffle，這是一個更具革命性的創新。
Jobs learned that the shuffle feature on the iPod, which played songs in random order, had become very popular.
喬布斯注意到iPod上面的“隨機播放”功能非常受歡迎，它可以讓使用者以隨機順序播放歌曲。
People liked to be surprised, and they were also too lazy to keep setting up and revising their playlists.
這是因為人們喜歡遇到驚喜，而且也懶于對播放列表進行設置和改動。
Some users even became obsessed with figuring out whether the song selection was truly random,
有一些用戶甚至熱衷于觀察歌曲的選擇是否是真正的隨機，
and if so, why their iPod kept coming back to, say, the Neville Brothers.
因為如果真的是隨機播放，那為什么他們的iPod總是回到比如《內維爾兄弟》這兒來？
