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If you had been paying attention to patent filings,
關注專利申請的人應該會注意到，
you would have noticed the one numbered D504889 that Apple applied for in March 2004 and was issued fourteen months later.
2004年3月，蘋果公司申請了編號為D504889的專利，并于14個月后通過。
Among the inventors listed were Jobs and Ive.
這項專利的發(fā)明者是喬布斯和艾弗。
The application carried sketches of a rectangular electronic tablet with rounded edges, which looked just the way the iPad turned out,
專利申請中附有一張圓角矩形平板電腦的草圖，圖上的平板電腦看上去正是后來推出的iPad，
including one of a man holding it casually in his left hand while using his right index finger to touch the screen.
草圖上一個男子隨意地用左手拿著這部平板電腦，右手食指觸碰屏幕。
Since the Macintosh computers were now using Intel chips,
由于麥金塔電腦當時已開始使用英特爾公司的芯片，
Jobs initially planned to use in the iPad the low-voltage Atom chip that Intel was developing.
喬布斯最初計劃在iPad中采用凌動芯片--英特爾公司正在研發(fā)的低電壓芯片。
Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO, was pushing hard to work together on a design, and Jobs's inclination was to trust him.
英特爾公司CEO保羅·歐德寧極力促成兩家公司一起進行設計工作，喬布斯也比較信任他。
His company was making the fastest processors in the world.
英特爾公司的處理器速度全球最快，
But Intel was used to making processors for machines that plugged into a wall, not ones that had to preserve battery life.
但是其芯片往往用在帶外接電源的計算機中，從來不需考慮電池的續(xù)航時間。
So Tony Fadell argued strongly for something based on the ARM architecture, which was simpler and used less power.
于是，托尼·法德爾極力主張采用基于ARM的架構，其芯片更為簡單，耗電更少。
Apple had been an early partner with ARM, and chips using its architecture were in the original iPhone.
蘋果公司很早就開始同ARM合作，最早的iPhone產品就使用了該架構的芯片。
Fadell gathered support from other engineers and proved that it was possible to confront Jobs and turn him around.
法德爾獲得了其他工程師的支持，相信有可能挑戰(zhàn)喬布斯并且說服他。
"Wrong, wrong, wrong!" Fadell shouted at one meeting when Jobs insisted it was best to trust Intel to make a good mobile chip.
在一次會議上，當喬布斯堅持認為最好信任英特爾公司能做出優(yōu)秀的移動設備芯片時，法德爾吼道：“錯了，錯了，錯了！”
Fadell even put his Apple badge on the table, threatening to resign. Eventually Jobs relented.
當時，法德爾甚至把自己的名牌拍在會議桌上，威脅要辭職。
"I hear you," he said. "I'm not going to go against my best guys."
最終，喬布斯松口了：“我聽你的，我不會反對我最優(yōu)秀的員工。”
