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A small company in Delaware called FingerWorks was already making a line of multi-touch trackpads.
特拉華州一家小企業FingerWorks已經制作出一系列多點觸控板。
Founded by two academics at the University of Delaware, John Elias and Wayne Westerman,
該公司的創始人約翰·埃利亞斯和韋恩·韋斯特曼是美國特拉華大學的學者。
FingerWorks had developed some tablets with multi-touch sensing capabilities
FingerWorks公司已經研發出具有多點觸控功能的平板電腦，
and taken out patents on ways to translate various finger gestures, such as pinches and swipes, into useful functions.
并申請專利，保護自己將手指動作轉化為有用功能的技術，如觸控縮放和滑動瀏覽。
In early 2005 Apple quietly acquired the company, all of its patents, and the services of its two founders.
2005年初，蘋果公司悄悄收購了該公司及其全部專利，兩位創始人也受雇于蘋果。
FingerWorks quit selling its products to others, and it began filing its new patents in Apple's name.
FingerWorks不再將其產品銷售給他人，并將新專利歸入蘋果公司名下。
After six months of work on the trackwheel P1 and the multi-touch P2 phone options,
滾輪P1項目和多點觸控P2項目進行了6個月后，
Jobs called his inner circle into his conference room to make a decision.
喬布斯把核心圈子成員召至自己的會議室，進行最終抉擇。
Fadell had been trying hard to develop the trackwheel model,
法德爾一直以來都在努力研發滾輪模型，
but he admitted they had not cracked the problem of figuring out a simple way to dial calls.
但他承認團隊還未找出簡單的撥號方式。
The multi-touch approach was riskier, because they were unsure whether they could execute the engineering,
多點觸控方案風險更高，因為不確定能否將其工程化，
but it was also more exciting and promising.
但是該方案也更激動人心，更有前景。
"We all know this is the one we want to do," said Jobs, pointing to the touchscreen. "So let's make it work."
“我們都知道，這就是我們想做的東西，”喬布斯意指觸摸屏，“那么，就讓我們實現它吧。”
It was what he liked to call a bet-the-company moment, high risk and high reward if it succeeded.
這就是他所謂的拿公司一搏的時刻，風險高，但如果成功了，回報也高。
