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Jobs went into the office the next day, gathered his team, and said,
第二天，喬布斯一來到公司就召集自己的團(tuán)隊說：
"I want to make a tablet, and it can't have a keyboard or a stylus."
“我要做一款平板電腦，不要鍵盤和手寫筆。”
Users would be able to type by touching the screen with their fingers.
用戶能夠通過手指觸摸屏幕輸入。
That meant the screen needed to have a feature that became known as multi-touch,
這意味著，平板電腦的屏幕需要使用一種被喬布斯形容為“多點觸控”的技術(shù)，
the ability to process multiple inputs at the same time.
能夠在同一時間處理多個輸入。
"So could you guys come up with a multi-touch, touch-sensitive display for me?" he asked.
“你們能做出一個多點觸控、反應(yīng)靈敏的樣品給我嗎？”他問道。
It took them about six months, but they came up with a crude but workable prototype.
團(tuán)隊成員花了6個月左右時間，做出了一個粗糙但可行的樣機(jī)。
Jony Ive had a different memory of how multi-touch was developed.
喬布斯把樣機(jī)交給了蘋果公司另一位用戶界面設(shè)計師。
He said his design team had already been working on a multi-touch input that was developed for the trackpads of Apple's MacBook Pro,
他說，當(dāng)時自己的設(shè)計團(tuán)隊已經(jīng)在為蘋果MacBook Pro的觸控板研發(fā)多點觸控輸入技術(shù)，
and they were experimenting with ways to transfer that capability to a computer screen.
他們還多方實驗，試圖將這種技術(shù)移至電腦屏幕。
They used a projector to show on a wall what it would look like.
他們還用投影儀在墻上演示了這項技術(shù)。
"This is going to change everything," Ive told his team.
艾弗對團(tuán)隊成員說：“這將改變一切。”
But he was careful not to show it to Jobs right away,
但他很謹(jǐn)慎，沒有立即展示給喬布斯。
especially since his people were working on it in their spare time and he didn't want to quash their enthusiasm.
由于團(tuán)隊是在業(yè)余時間研發(fā)這項技術(shù)，因此他不想打擊大家的積極性。
"Because Steve is so quick to give an opinion, I don't show him stuff in front of other people," Ive recalled.
“因為史蒂夫會很快給出意見，所以我不會在有別人在場的時候向他展示東西，”艾弗回憶說。
"He might say, 'This is shit,' and snuff the idea.
“他可能會說，‘這就是一堆狗屎’，然后打消掉我們的想法。
I feel that ideas are very fragile, so you have to be tender when they are in development.
我覺得這些想法還很脆弱，還處在孕育之中，需要溫柔對待。
I realized that if he pissed on this, it would be so sad, because I knew it was so important."
如果他對此不屑一顧，那就太可惜了，因為我知道這項技術(shù)很重要。”
