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It ended up having neither the enticing minimalism of an iPod nor the convenient slimness of a RAZR.
但是，該系列手機既沒有iPod迷人的極簡風格，也沒有刀鋒系列便捷的超薄造型。
Ugly, difficult to load, and with an arbitrary hundred-song limit,
它外觀丑陋，下載困難，只能容納近百首歌曲。
it had all the hallmarks of a product that had been negotiated by a committee, which was counter to the way Jobs liked to work.
這是典型的委員會討論之下形成的產品，與喬布斯喜歡的工作方式相悖。
Instead of hardware, software, and content all being controlled by one company,
RAZR系列手機的硬件、軟件和內容并非由同一家公司控制，
they were cobbled together by Motorola, Apple, and the wireless carrier Cingular.
而是由摩托羅拉公司、蘋果公司及無線運營商辛格勒共同拼湊而成。
"You call this the phone of the future?" Wired scoffed on its November 2005 cover.
《連線》雜志在其2005年11月號的封面上嘲諷道：“你們管這叫未來的手機？”
Jobs was furious. "I'm sick of dealing with these stupid companies like Motorola,"
喬布斯怒不可遏。“我受夠了跟摩托羅拉這些愚蠢的公司打交道。”
he told Tony Fadell and others at one of the iPod product review meetings. "Let's do it ourselves."
在一次iPod產品評述會議上，他對托尼·法德爾及其他人說。“我們自己來。”
He had noticed something odd about the cell phones on the market: They all stank, just like portable music players used to.
他注意到市場上手機的奇怪之處：他們都很爛，就像以前的便攜式音樂播放器一樣。
"We would sit around talking about how much we hated our phones," he recalled.
“我們會坐在一起談論有多么討厭自己的手機，”他回憶說。
"They were way too complicated. They had features nobody could figure out, including the address book. It was just Byzantine."
“它們太復雜，有些功能沒人能搞明白，包括通訊簿。簡直就跟拜占庭一樣混亂不堪。”
George Riley, an outside lawyer for Apple, remembers sitting at meetings to go over legal issues,
律師喬治·萊利還記得自己當時坐在會議室里檢查法律問題，
and Jobs would get bored, grab Riley's mobile phone, and start pointing out all the ways it was "brain-dead."
喬布斯覺得厭煩了，于是拿起萊利的手機，歷數各類缺陷，指出這完全就是“腦殘”設計。
So Jobs and his team became excited about the prospect of building a phone that they would want to use.
喬布斯及其團隊十分興奮，因為他們看到了打造一款自己想用的手機的前景。
"That's the best motivator of all," Jobs later said.
“這是最好的動力。”喬布斯后來說道。
