"I'm just passing by, just stopping by to have fun. Sid walked over with a grin on his face.

Jonathan Yves looked up at the starry sky outside the window, and pointed to 8:07 on the wall—in the middle of the night, you "old man" stopped by to play?

"Oh, this is the prototype of the iPod? has it already been made?" asked Sid, "surprised" at the small machine in Jobs' hand.

Of course, Jobs didn't believe Sid's "nonsense" at all, and he lifted his round glasses, "Yes, this is the prototype." Then he handed over the prototype in his hand, "Do you want to see it?"

"Of course!" Sid took it with a smile on his face, and he first put the iPod prototype in front of him, "Well, it's a little thicker, and it needs to be thinner so that it can be easily carried." ”

Sid's words made Jonathan Yves jump in his eyelids, which was the same as what Jobs had just said.

Sid tried to fit the iPod prototype into the pocket of his jeans, but the size of the prototype made it difficult to fit in, and even if he squeezed in, it seemed inconvenient.

"It's better to reduce it by another 5 mm. Sid pulled the prototype out again, then rubbed it in his hand again, "It's okay, it's lighter than I thought." ”

Then Sid gave the iPod back to Jobs, "And iTune is done?"

"Of course. Jobs nodded confidently.

"Oh, really?" Sid smiled incomprehensibly, and Jobs chuckled in his heart, could this kid know that!?

Sid turned to Jonathan Yves, the design director, "What about the iPod charger and cable?" ”

Jobs was now sure that Sid really knew what was hiding from him.

Jonathan Yves couldn't help but look at Jobs, who looked at Sid with a smiling expression. Sid didn't have the slightest displeasure, nor did he have any coercion, but he just unconsciously reminded him of the thin guy with thick glasses and an expressionless face to his anger more than ten years ago.

Jobs knew that the secret he had been trying to keep had been discovered by the other party, so he had to nod to Jonathan Yve, and then Jonathan took out a white data cable from under the table and connected it to the square charger.

Sid took it and unplugged the place where the cable was connected to the charger, and there was a small narrow port on it, "So, this is the Fireire interface?"

"Yes, Mr. Leon. Jonathan Yves certainly knew Sid's status as a major shareholder, and when he heard Sid's question, he couldn't help but answer immediately.

Then Sid turned his head to look at Jobs, with a faint smile on his face, and Jobs said with a gloomy face: "Jonathan, you guys go out first." ”

"Oh, okay. Jonathan Yves immediately nodded in agreement, and although Sid and Jobs had a smile on their faces and a calm face, he still clearly felt the air between the two of them that was gradually tense.

Jonathan Yves clapped his hands and waved to the designers and engineers in the lab, and then everyone quickly left the lab, leaving Sid and Jobs in the large room.

Sid held the iPod cable with Fireire interface on both ends, and looked at Jobs with a smile: "Steve, you promised me that the iPod must be compatible with the PC!"

As soon as Jobs heard Sid's words, he immediately retorted fiercely: "Do you know how slow USB transfer is? If we didn't use the Fireire interface, we would have to transfer 1,000 songs for 5 hours, 5 hours! God! And they are not compatible with charging, balabala......"

Jobs excitedly argued to Sid, but Sid did not move and looked at Jobs as a little secret, until Jobs ended with "Also, we haven't developed PC-compatible iTune software!".

Sid smiled and pushed the glass of water on the table over, "Say you're tired, come, drink saliva." ”

"Poof-" Even the deep and deep Jobs was not close to being amused by him, "You kid......" He pointed helplessly at Sid, then picked up the glass and drank it down.

Then Sid smiled and said, "Actually, there is something I haven't told you before. With a "pop!" sound, Sid pulled out a ball of white thread from his pocket and pulled it open to show it in front of Jobs.

Jobs looked at it, and what Sid had in his hand was an iPod cable with a Fireire interface at one end and a USB interface at the other!

"You!" Jobs looked at Sid dumbfounded, he didn't expect Sid to directly take out such a finished product.

Although Jobs agreed to Sid's iPod compatible with the PC's request, in the actual development process, his stubborn old problem recurred, which made him carry Sid behind his back and continue to develop the Fireire interface that could only be plugged into the Mac computer, and from the hardware, it cut off the possibility of the iPod logging in to the PC.

However, now Sid has directly taken out the finished PC-compatible data cable, which means that someone is behind his back and has developed PC-compatible hardware for Sid.

"Who is it!?" Jobs asked angrily, "who the hell is doing this behind my back in Apple!"

"Nobody, Jobs. Sid rolled his eyes, "I just used my status as a major shareholder, took the development materials of the iPod, recruited some engineers myself, and tried to make a prototype compatible with the PC." This is a data line, God, it's not some satellite black technology, how difficult can it be?"

Sid's words reassured Mr. Jobs, who had hated betrayal the most since he was presented to Apple more than a decade ago.

"And what's the matter with you betraying our agreement? Steve?" Sid rolled his eyes at Jobs.

"This ......" Jobs, who was not a responsible person, "I'm sorry." He immediately apologized.

"Accept the apology. Sid nodded, and didn't pursue it, "I think Steve, you seem to be a little slack, don't you think that Apple, which has successfully climbed out of the bankruptcy crisis, has no opponent?"

"Of course not. "Apple is still 108,000 miles away from its heyday, and of course Jobs wouldn't have thought like that, but.

"Let me tell you something. Sid straightened up and said with a serious face, "You know the big move of Microsoft in October this year. ”

"You mean the inXP system is on sale?" Jobs nodded, "Of course." ”

"At the moment in Microsoft's internal presentation for computer media, inXP's system suitability is a step up from in98, and many critics believe that inXP will be more successful. Sid's words made Jobs also show a grim face.

In the past, he ruthlessly pitted his rival Microsoft, but now it is the rise of a thriving empire, how can this not make Jobs nervous.