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Gorilla Glass
金剛玻璃
Jobs became infatuated with different materials the way he did with certain foods.
喬布斯很喜歡在做一樣東西時嘗試用不同材料，就像他對待某些食物時那樣。
When he went back to Apple in 1997 and started work on the iMac,
1997年，他回歸蘋果后，開始著手制造iMac，
he had embraced what could be done with translucent and colored plastic. The next phase was metal.
用半透明和彩色塑料做出了漂亮的產品。接下來是金屬。
He and Ive replaced the curvy plastic PowerBook G3 with the sleek titanium PowerBook G4,
他和艾弗用光滑的鈦板制作出PowerBook G4，淘汰了塑料外殼的PowerBook G3，
which they redesigned two years later in aluminum, as if just to demonstrate how much they liked different metals.
兩年后又用鋁制材料對該款電腦進行了重新設計，似乎只為了證明他們非常喜歡嘗試不同的材料。
Then they did an iMac and an iPod Nano in anodized aluminum,
之后，陽極電鍍鋁板被用在了iMac和iPod Nano上，
which meant that the metal had been put in an acid bath and electrified so that its surface oxidized.
這種材料是將鋁進行酸浴和電鍍，使其表面氧化。
Jobs was told it could not be done in the quantities they needed, so he had a factory built in China to handle it.
喬布斯得知這種材料的產量達不到他們的需要后，就在中國興建了一家工廠進行生產。
Ive went there, during the SARS epidemic, to oversee the process.
非典期間，艾弗前往該廠監督流程。
"I stayed for three months in a dormitory to work on the process," he recalled.
“我在宿舍里住了3個月，改進流程，”他回憶道。
"Ruby and others said it would be impossible,
“魯比和其他人認為不可能做到，
but I wanted to do it because Steve and I felt that the anodized aluminum had a real integrity to it."
但是我想做，因為喬布斯和我都覺得陽極電鍍鋁能夠真正讓產品完美起來。”
Next was glass. "After we did metal, I looked at Jony and said that we had to master glass," said Jobs.
再接下來是玻璃。“在搞定金屬材質后，我看著喬尼說，我們必須掌握玻璃材質的使用。”喬布斯說道。
For the Apple stores, they had created huge windowpanes and glass stairs.
在蘋果店，他們做出了巨大的玻璃窗和玻璃樓梯。
For the iPhone, the original plan was for it to have a plastic screen, like the iPod.
而對于iPhone，蘋果公司原計劃像iPod—樣，使用塑料屏幕。
But Jobs decided it would feel much more elegant and substantive if the screens were glass.
但是，喬布斯認為玻璃屏幕會更好，感覺更優雅實在。
So he set about finding a glass that would be strong and resistant to scratches.
于是，他開始尋找結實耐劃的玻璃。
