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There was, in addition, a more personal reason.
此外，還有一個個人原因。
Apple had invested in Adobe in 1985, and together the two companies had launched the desktop publishing revolution.
1985年，蘋果投資了Adobe公司，兩家企業聯手發起了桌面出版革命。
"I helped put Adobe on the map," Jobs claimed.
“我幫助Adobe公司成名。”喬布斯稱。
In 1999, after he returned to Apple,
1999年重回蘋果后，
he had asked Adobe to start making its video editing software and other products for the iMac and its new operating system, but Adobe refused.
喬布斯讓Adobe公司為iMac及其新操作系統制作視頻編輯軟件和其他產品，但是Adobe拒絕了。
It focused on making its products for Windows. Soon after, its founder, John Warnock, retired.
Adobe專注于為Windows開發產品。不久之后，Adobe公司的創始人約翰·沃諾克退休了。
"The soul of Adobe disappeared when Warnock left," Jobs said.
“沃諾克離開后，Adobe公司的靈魂也消失了，”喬布斯說。
"He was the inventor, the person I related to. It's been a bunch of suits since then, and the company has turned out crap."
“他是我愿與之打交道的創新者。他走以后，留下的只是一群西裝革履的家伙，Adobe公司也變成了垃圾。”
When Adobe evangelists and various Flash supporters in the blogosphere attacked Jobs for being too controlling,
博客圈的Adobe布道者和Flash支持者開始抨擊喬布斯，認為他的控制欲太過火了，
he decided to write and post an open letter.
于是，喬布斯決定撰寫并發表一封公開信。
Bill Campbell, his friend and board member, came by his house to go over it.
他的朋友，蘋果董事會成員比爾·坎貝爾專程前往喬布斯家中通讀這封信。
"Does it sound like I'm just trying to stick it to Adobe?" he asked Campbell.
“是不是有種我在給Adobe挑刺的感覺？”他問坎貝爾。
"No, it's facts, just put it out there," the coach said.
“不，你寫的都是事實，就這樣吧。”坎貝爾回答道。
Most of the letter focused on the technical drawbacks of Flash.
這封公開信大多著眼于Flash的技術缺陷。
But despite Campbell's coaching, Jobs couldn't resist venting at the end about the problematic history between the two companies.
盡管有坎貝爾的指點，但是喬布斯在公開信的結尾處還是禁不住感慨于兩家公司之間的歷史糾葛。
"Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X," he noted.
他指出：“Adobe是最后一家完整采納Mac OS X標準的大型第三方軟件開發商。”
Apple ended up lifting some of its restrictions on cross-platform compilers later in the year,
那年晚些時候，蘋果提高了對跨平臺編譯器的一些限制，
and Adobe was able to come out with a Flash authoring tool that took advantage of the key features of Apple's iOS.
而Adobe公司則推出了能夠利用蘋果iOS系統主要特性的Flash創作軟件。
It was a bitter war, but one in which Jobs had the better argument.
這是一場痛苦的戰爭，但喬布斯占據了更大主動權。
In the end it pushed Adobe and other developers of compilers to make better use of the iPhone and iPad interface and its special features.
最后，它推動了Adobe和其他編譯器開發者更好地利用iPhone和iPad的界面及其特性。
