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But there was always … in Pre-Mackintosh days and early Mackintosh days, there was always Steven and John show. You two were kinda joined at the hip for a while there.
可是在Mackintosh時期，你倆總是一起出現在媒體上，幾乎形影不離。
That's right.
沒錯。
And then something happened to spilt you, what was that, what was that?
后來怎么會產生矛盾呢？
Well, what happened was … that the industry went into a recession in late 1984, sales started seriously contracted,
1984年底IT行業進入蕭條期，銷售業績大幅下降
and John didn't know what to do,
John開始驚慌失措
and he had not a clue. And there was a leadership vacuum at the top of Apple. There were fairly strong general managers running the divisions,
這時蘋果公司正好群龍無首，各個部門的負責人都很強勢，互不相讓
and I was running the Mackintosh division, somebody else was running the Apple II division etc.
我管理Mackintosh部門，有人管理Apple II 部門
There were some problems with some of the divisions, and there was a person running the storage division that was completely out of lunch.
還有些部門已經瀕臨關閉
A bunch of things needed to be changed.
比如存儲部門，公司百廢待興
But all those problems got put into a pressure cooker,
市場疲軟又進一步激化了公司的內部矛盾
because of this contraction in the market place, and there was no leadership,
大家各自為陣
and John was in a situation where the board was not happy, and where he was probably not long for the company.
董事會對公司的業績很不滿意，John的職位岌岌可危
And one thing I did not ever see about John, until that time was, he had incredible survival instinct.
那時我才發現John有一種很強烈的自救本能
Someone once told me "this guy didn't get to be the this you know president of Pepsi co without these kind of instincts", and it was true.
有人曾提醒我百事前總裁絕非善茬兒，他說得沒錯
And John decided that a really good person to be the root of all the problems would be me.
John把一切問題都歸咎到我頭上
And so we came to loggerheads,
我們因此反目
and John had cultivated a very close relationship with the board, and they believed him, so that's what happened.
董事會一向很信任John，所以我被掃地出門了
