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Jobs went to the Apple store in Palo Alto shortly before noon on April 5, the day the iPad went on sale.
4月5日中午之前，喬布斯來到帕洛奧圖的蘋果專賣店，這是iPad開始銷售的日子。
Daniel Kottke -- his acid-dropping soul mate from Reed and the early days at Apple,
丹尼爾·科特基也來了；他是喬布斯在里德學院和蘋果公司早期的親密伙伴，
who no longer harbored a grudge for not getting founders' stock options, made a point of being there.
科特基對當初沒有得到發起人期權的事情早已釋懷。
"It had been fifteen years, and I wanted to see him again," Kottke recounted.
“已經15年了，我想再見見他，”科特基回憶道。
"I grabbed him and told him I was going to use the iPad for my song lyrics.
“我拉住他，說自己準備用iPad來寫歌詞。
He was in a great mood and we had a nice chat after all these years."
他當時心情很好，這么多年來，我們總算有了一次倫快的聊天。”
Powell and their youngest child, Eve, watched from a corner of the store.
喬布斯的妻子鮑威爾及他們最小的孩子伊芙在商店的角落里看著他們聊天。
Wozniak, who had once been a proponent of making hardware and software as open as possible, continued to revise that opinion.
沃茲尼亞克曾主張盡可能開放硬件和軟件，他也在不斷修正自己的意見。
As he often did, he stayed up all night with the enthusiasts waiting in line for the store to open.
如以往一樣，iPad上市當天，他和果粉們徹夜排隊等待蘋果專賣店開門。
This time he was at San Jose's Valley Fair Mall, riding a Segway.
這一天，他騎著一輛賽格威兩輪自平衡電動車，來到圣何塞的維利菲爾購物中心等待。
A reporter asked him about the closed nature of Apple's ecosystem.
一位記者向他詢問蘋果生態系統的封閉性。
"Apple gets you into their playpen and keeps you there, but there are some advantages to that," he replied.
他回答說：“蘋果把用戶引進圍欄并讓他們留在里面，但是這也有一些優勢。
"I like open systems, but I'm a hacker. But most people want things that are easy to use.
我喜愛開放式系統，但我是個黑客。而大多數人只想要簡單方便易用的東西。
Steve's genius is that he knows how to make things simple, and that sometimes requires controlling everything."
史蒂夫的天才之處就在于，他知道如何把東西變得簡單，而要做到這一點有時就需要控制一切。”
