乔布斯生前最后一次公共演讲谈苹果新园区发展蓝图.doc

Cupertino is very famous for puter. And we are very honor to have Steve Jobs e here tonight to give us special presentation. Mr. Jobs? 苹果如今变得炙手可热 Cupertino 也沾光不少,今晚我们荣幸地邀请到乔布斯莅临现场。乔总? e, Mr Jobs: you have a fan club here.. 欢迎你,这里貌似都是你的粉丝。 Thank you. Apple's grown like a weed, and as you know, we've always been in Cupertino. Started in an office par, eventually, got the buildings, we are in now the corner of the ends of those buildings hold maybe 2600 or 2800 people. But we've got almost 12,000 people in the area. So we're renting buildings - not very good buildings, either at an ever-greater radius from our campus and we're putting people in those. It is clear that we need to build new campus, so we just add space. That doesn't mean we don't need the one we got, we do need it, but we need another one to augment it. So we've got a plan that let's us stay in Cupertino. And we went out and we bought some land and this land is kind of special, to me. When I was 13, I think, I called up... Hewlett and Packard were my idols. And I called up Bill Hewlett, cause he lived in Palo Alto, and there were no unlisted numbers in the phone book, which gives you a clue to my age. And he picked up the phone and I talked to him and I asked him if he'd give me some spare parts for something I was building called a frequency counter. And he did, but in addition to that he gave me something