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One of the engineers developing a tablet PC at Microsoft was married to a friend of Laurene and Steve Jobs,
喬布斯夫婦有一位朋友的丈夫是微軟的工程師，當時在進行平板電腦的研發。
and for his fiftieth birthday he wanted to have a dinner party that included them along with Bill and Melinda Gates.
這位工程師50歲生日時舉辦了一場晚宴，邀請喬布斯夫婦和蓋茨夫婦出席。
Jobs went, a bit reluctantly.
喬布斯有些不情愿地去了。
"Steve was actually quite friendly to me at the dinner," Gates recalled, but he "wasn't particularly friendly" to the birthday guy.
“其實史蒂夫那天晚上對我挺友好，”蓋茨回憶說，但卻對壽星“不是特別友好”。
Gates was annoyed that the guy kept revealing information about the tablet PC he had developed for Microsoft.
那位工程師不停地透露微軟平板電腦的情況，這讓蓋茨很惱火。
"He's our employee and he's revealing our intellectual property," Gates recounted.
“他是我們的員工，掌握著我們的知識產杈。”蓋茨回憶道。
Jobs was also annoyed, and it had just the consequence that Gates feared.
喬布斯同樣很惱火，蓋茨擔心會引發自己不想看到的后果，他的擔心成真了。
As Jobs recalled: This guy badgered me about how Microsoft was going to completely change the world with this tablet PC software
喬布斯回憶道：這個家伙纏著我說，微軟這款平板電腦軟件將如何徹底改變世界，
and eliminate all notebook computers, and Apple ought to license his Microsoft software.
淘汰所有的筆記本電腦，蘋果應該使用他開發的微軟軟件。
But he was doing the device all wrong.
但是他設計的這個產品完全錯了。
It had a stylus. As soon as you have a stylus, you're dead.
就是因為配有一支手寫筆，而只要有手寫筆，這產品就廢了。
This dinner was like the tenth time he talked to me about it,
晚宴上他跟我說了近十遍這些玩意兒，
and I was so sick of it that I came home and said, "Fuck this, let's show him what a tablet can really be."
我都煩死了，回到家我就說：“去他媽的，讓我們告訴他真正的平板電腦應該是什么樣。”
