乔布斯传 第640期:50岁的雄狮(12)

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Jobs stared at the floor. Later he told me that he was blown away by how honest and gracious Gates had just been.

乔布斯盯着地板。他后来对我说，盖茨的诚实和风度让他震动。

Jobs was equally honest, though not quite as gracious, when his turn came.

轮到乔布斯回答时，他也一样诚实，尽管并非像盖茨那样有风度。

He described the great divide between the Apple theology of building end-to-end integrated products and Microsoft's openness to licensing¹ its software to competing hardware makers².

他描述了苹果和微软的理念鸿沟，苹果欲打造端到端一体化的产品，微软则将自己的软件开放授权给彼此竞争的硬件厂商。

In the music market, the integrated approach, as manifested in his iTunes-iPod package, was proving to be the better, he noted³,

他指出，在音乐市场，集成的做法更好，这个已经有iTunes/iPod组合可以证明，

but Microsoft's decoupled approach was faring better in the personal computer market.

但是在个人电脑市场，微软的分离政策发展得更好。

One question he raised in an offhand⁴ way was: Which approach might work better for mobile phones?

这番话随即引出了一个潜在的问题：在手机市场，哪种方法会更好？

Then he went on to make an insightful point:

接着，他提出了一个精辟的观点。

This difference in design philosophy, he said, led him and Apple to be less good at collaborating⁵ with other companies.

在设计理念上的差异导致他及苹果公司更不善于同其他公司合作。

"Because Woz and I started the company based on doing the whole banana, we weren't so good at partnering with people," he said.

“因为沃兹和我创办公司的时候，所有东西都是D己在做，因此我们不是很善于与人合作，”他说道。

"And I think if Apple could have had a little more of that in its DNA⁶, it would have served it extremely well."

“我认为，如果苹果天生能够多一点点合作精神，会非常好。”

1 licensing   

v.批准，许可，颁发执照( license的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• A large part of state regulation consists of occupational licensing. 大部分州的管理涉及行业的特许批准。 来自英汉非文学 - 行政法
• That licensing procedures for projects would move faster. 这样的工程批准程序一定会加快。 来自辞典例句

2 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。

4 offhand   

adj.临时，无准备的；随便，马虎的

参考例句：

• I can't answer your request offhand.我不能随便答复你的要求。
• I wouldn't want to say what I thought about it offhand.我不愿意随便说我关于这事的想法。

5 collaborating   

合作( collaborate的现在分词 )； 勾结叛国

参考例句：

• Joe is collaborating on the work with a friend. 乔正与一位朋友合作做那件工作。
• He was not only learning from but also collaborating with Joseph Thomson. 他不仅是在跟约瑟福？汤姆逊学习，而且也是在和他合作。

6 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。