乔布斯传 第550期:铃鼓先生(6)（在线收听）

That feature led to the iPod Shuffle.

这个功能引出了iPod Shuffle。

As Rubinstein and Fadell were working on creating a flash player that was small and inexpensive,

当鲁宾斯坦和法德尔努力制造一款体积更小、价格更低的闪存播放器时，

they kept doing things like making the screen tinier.

他们一直在尝试把屏幕的面积缩小之类的事情。

At one point Jobs came in with a crazy suggestion: Get rid of the screen altogether.

有一次，乔布斯提出了一个疯狂的建议：干脆把屏幕去掉吧。

"What?!" Fadell responded.

“什么？！”法德尔没有反应过来。

"Just get rid of it," Jobs insisted.

“去掉屏幕。”乔布斯坚持。

Fadell asked how users would navigate the songs.

法德尔担心的是用户怎么找歌曲。

Jobs's insight was that you wouldn't need to navigate; the songs would play randomly.

而乔布斯的观点是他们根本不需要找歌曲，歌曲可以随机播放。

After all, they were songs you had chosen.

毕竟，所有的歌曲都是用户自己挑选的。

All that was needed was a button to skip over a song if you weren't in the mood for it.

他们只需要在碰到不想听的歌曲时按“下一首”跳过去。

"Embrace uncertainty," the ads read.

iPod Shuffle的广告词是：“拥抱不确定性。”