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Board member Art Levinson was among those pushing to allow iPhone apps.
董事會成員亞瑟·萊文森和一些人主張開放iPhone應用程序。
"I called him a half dozen times to lobby for the potential of the apps," he recalled.
“我給他打了很多電話，游說他開放應用程序。”萊文森回憶說。
If Apple didn't allow them, indeed encourage them, another smartphone maker would, giving itself a competitive advantage.
如果蘋果不允許開發(fā)者制作應用程序，而其他智能手機制造商允許，那么這實際上就將競爭優(yōu)勢拱手相讓。
Apple's marketing chief Phil Schiller agreed.
蘋果公司營銷總監(jiān)菲爾·席勒贊同萊文森的說法。
"I couldn't imagine that we would create something as powerful as the iPhone and not empower developers to make lots of apps," he recalled.
“我無法想象，我們能創(chuàng)造出iPhone這樣強大的產(chǎn)品，卻不愿意授權(quán)開發(fā)者制作應用程序，”席勒回憶道。
"I knew customers would love them."
“我知道消費者會喜歡。”
From the outside, the venture capitalist John Doerr argued that permitting apps would spawn a profusion of new entrepreneurs who would create new services.
在蘋果公司外部，風險投資家約翰·多爾認為，開放應用程序平臺能夠催生出新型創(chuàng)業(yè)者，他們會創(chuàng)造出新的服務。
Jobs at first quashed the discussion,
喬布斯一開始拒絕就此進行討論，
partly because he felt his team did not have the bandwidth to figure out all of the complexities that would be involved in policing third-party app developers.
部分原因是，他認為其團隊沒有精力解決授權(quán)第三方應用程序開發(fā)者所涉及的復雜問題。
He wanted focus. "So he didn't want to talk about it," said Schiller.
他希望團隊能專注。“于是他根本不愿意談論這個問題。”席勒說。
But as soon as the iPhone was launched, he was willing to hear the debate.
但是iPhone推出后不久，他又愿意聽取大家就這個問題的爭論。
"Every time the conversation happened, Steve seemed a little more open," said Levinson.
“每談論一次這個話題，史蒂夫就好像更開放了一些。”萊文森表示。
There were freewheeling discussions at four board meetings.
在四次董事會會議上，他們都就此問題進行了自由討論。
