Andy Rubin was at General Magic. He created Android.

安迪·鲁宾在 General Magic.。他创造了安卓。

TONY FADELL: We were failing at General Magic, and we said it had to die.

我们在 General Magic 公司失败了，我们说公司要完了。

And I hadn't — you know, I had heard lots of stories from my General Magic friends who worked for Steve, right?

我没有——你知道，我从我那些为史蒂夫工作过的 General Magic 公司的朋友那里听说了很多故事，对吗？

General Magic made some of the earliest PDAs — personal digital assistants — if you can remember back that far, though General Magic originally called them “personal intelligent communicators.”

General Magic 制造了一些最早的 PDA——个人数字助理——如果你还记得那时候的话，尽管 General Magic 最初称它们为“个人智能通信器”。

And I was designing it, and I was like, " Look, everybody. I think this is what's going to help save General Magic."

我在设计的时候，我说，“大家看。我认为这会有助于拯救 General Magic 公司。”

All of the different customer touchpoints, I was able to watch that and learn. At General Magic, we learned how to do products.

所有不同的客户接触点，我都能看到并学习。在 General Magic，我们学习如何做产品。

And it would tell about the team that created the Mac, and it would say where they're at and what they're doing now, and they started this company called General Magic.

它会告诉你创造 Mac 的团队，它会告诉你他们在哪里，他们现在在做什么，然后他们创立了一家叫做 General Magic 的公司。

ALICE WINKLER: Fadell's next move, not long after graduating college in 1991, was to a company called General Magic, legendary in the history of Silicon Valley for its spectacular inventions and its spectacular failure.

1991年，法德尔大学毕业后不久，就跳槽到一家名为 General Magic 的公司，这家公司因其惊人的发明和惊人的失败而成为硅谷历史上的传奇。

And so I designed that. Nobody wanted it at General Magic, so I started — I'm like, " Wait a second. I'm going to go pitch it to the partners at General Magic, " and Phillips was one of them.

所以我设计了这个。在 General Magic 公司没人想要它，所以我就开始了——我说，“等一下。我要把它推销给 General Magic 的合伙人，”菲利普斯就是其中之一。

I wanted to go work for my heroes, and ultimately I got — after a lot of perseverance — into General Magic, and I was employed at, like, 30 or something like that, and got to work with my heroes and learn everything.

我想为我的英雄们工作，最终——经过不懈的努力——我进入了 General Magic 公司，我大约在三十岁左右被聘用，和我的英雄们一起工作，学习一切。