Name: Springboard：首款真正智能手機的祕密歷史（全紀錄片） (Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone (Full Documentary))
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T17:42:48.000Z
Duration: 30 min 36 s

The iPhone, and then Android, revolutionized the smartphone world and changed the way that we use technology forever.

iPhone 和隨後的安卓系統徹底改變了智能手機世界，永遠改變了我們使用技術的方式。

但在這個故事之前還有一個故事。

It's a story of a technology company that few people remember today.

這是一個關於科技公司的故事，如今很少有人還記得它。

It was called Handspring, and the people who founded it were among the first to realize that the simple phone would need to stop being just a phone, that eventually it would become a computer.

它的名字叫 Handspring，創辦人是最早意識到簡單的手機不能再僅僅是手機，它最終會變成一臺電腦的人之一。

Every little pocket device in the future is going to have a fast, inexpensive internet connection, and you're going to use it for voice and data and transactions and so on.

未來，每一個袖珍設備都將擁有快速、廉價的互聯網連接，你將用它來進行語音、數據和交易等等。

This is the story of the people whose ideas are inside the phones that we use every day.

我們每天都在使用的手機中蘊含著許多人的創意，這就是他們的故事。

But those ideas came just a little too early.

Not the company that they worked at, not the carriers that sold millions of phones a year.

不是他們工作過的公司，也不是每年銷售數百萬部手機的運營商。

Thirty miles south of San Francisco lies Silicon Valley.

舊金山以南 30 英里處就是硅谷。

AOL is sending out CDs to get on the internet.

美國在線（AOL）正在寄送上網光盤。

Hotmail 是炙手可熱的新型電子郵件服務。

And getting online means listening to the screech of a 56k BPS modem.

上網意味著要聽 56k BPS 調制解調器的刺耳聲音。

It was way before smartphones, in other words.

換句話說，那是在智能手機出現之前。

Instead we had personal digital assistants.

These things didn't get on the internet wirelessly.

Instead they were big gadgety organizers.

相反，他們都是些小玩意兒的大組織者。

Apple made one called the Newton and it flopped.

蘋果公司生產了一款名為 "牛頓"（Newton）的產品，但最終失敗了。

Microsoft kept trying to shrink a PC down into a handheld, which was a bad idea.

微軟一直試圖將個人電腦縮小成掌上電腦，這是一個壞主意。

實際上，只有一個 PDA 做對了。

It was called the Palm Pilot and it was a big hit.

它被稱為 Palm Pilot，大受歡迎。

It's actually a real computer that happens to be the most popular handheld computer there is right now.

它實際上是一臺真正的電腦，而且恰好是目前最流行的掌上電腦。

Got about 11 million people using them out there.

The team behind Palm were true believers that a mobile revolution was coming.

Palm 背後的團隊堅信，移動革命即將到來。

Jeff Hawkins was the product mind behind the Palm Pilot.

傑夫-霍金斯（Jeff Hawkins）是 Palm Pilot 的產品設計師。

Donald Dubinsky was the CEO and Ed Colligan handled marketing.

唐納德-杜賓斯基（Donald Dubinsky）擔任首席執行官，埃德-科利根（Ed Colligan）負責市場營銷。

But Palm ran into money problems early on.

但 Palm 很早就遇到了資金問題。

Robotics, a modem company, which was then bought by 3Com, another modem company.

Robotics 是一家調制解調器公司，後來被另一家調制解調器公司 3Com 收購。

And the people who ran 3Com were the first of many who didn't understand how important mobile would become.

而管理 3Com 的人是許多人中第一個不瞭解行動電話將變得多麼重要的人。

That it was the future and dial-up internet would soon be the past.

這就是未來，撥號上網很快就會成為過去。

是以，我們被美國公司收購了。

And 3Com didn't even know they were getting us.

而 3Com 公司甚至都不知道他們在抓我們。

It was like this little note on the side.

We had just gotten to the point where we just didn't feel that we could do our best work at Palm anymore.

我們已經到了無法再在 Palm 做到最好的地步。

We'd been looking at the question of, could we spin off Palm into a separate entity?

我們一直在考慮這樣一個問題：我們能否將 Palm 分拆成一個獨立的實體？

我們成立了一個委員會來研究這個問題。

We'd had advisors, gone through a whole analysis, made a recommendation.

我們請了顧問，進行了全面分析，提出了建議。

They came back and said, we're never, ever going to let you guys, you know, spin out.

他們回來後說，我們絕不會讓你們，你知道的，轉出去。

So Donna resigned for both of us that day without consulting me first.

所以那天唐娜沒有先徵求我的意見，就為我們倆辭職了。

Could have said, well, you didn't sign for me.

你本可以說，好吧，你沒有籤給我。

Donna and I, we had kept this team together from the very start.

唐娜和我，從一開始就把這個團隊團結在一起。

And we all had personal commitments to each other.

It wasn't a jolt so much as a logical next step when we wanted to have an independent company and they didn't want us to have that as a part of 3Com.

當我們想擁有一家獨立的公司，而他們又不希望我們成為 3Com 的一部分時，這與其說是一個衝擊，不如說是順理成章的下一步。

We'd had such success at Palm that one of the venture capitalists literally wrote a check to Jeff saying, I'm invested before we had a set of slides.

我們在 Palm 取得了巨大的成功，以至於其中一位風險投資人在我們製作出一套幻燈片之前，就寫了一張支票給傑夫，說 "我投資了"。

I mean, he just said, whatever you're doing, I want in.

我的意思是，他只是說，不管你在做什麼，我都想加入。

於是我們離開了，成立了 Handspring。

They left because they saw just how big an opportunity mobile would be.

他們離開是因為他們看到了移動通信將是一個多麼巨大的機遇。

It's the beginning of a big new industry.

這是一個大型新興產業的開端。

Then when we got to Handspring, we needed to come up with some way of differentiating from Palm.

當我們進入 Handspring 公司後，我們需要想出一些與 Palm 不同的方法。

We own the market for handheld computers at Palm.

And that was Jeff's genius idea of creating this thing called the Springboard Slot.

這就是傑夫的天才想法，他創造了這個叫做 "跳板槽 "的東西。

The Springboard Slot is this module on the back of the Vizor PDA.

跳板插槽是 Vizor PDA 背面的模塊。

PDAs at the time couldn't do the stuff that we expect out of our gadgets today.

當時的掌上電腦還做不到我們今天對小工具的期望。

There was no music, no cameras, no storage expansion and no wireless radios.

沒有音樂，沒有攝像頭，沒有存儲擴展，也沒有無線收音機。

And the only way to figure it out was to experiment, to let anybody make Springboard modules and for Handspring to try out some of their own and see what worked.

唯一的辦法就是進行試驗，讓任何人都能製作 Springboard 模塊，Handspring 也可以嘗試自己製作一些模塊，看看哪種方法可行。

Peter Skillman came on board at Handspring to help design the hardware, which was no easy feat back then.

彼得-斯基爾曼（Peter Skillman）加入了 Handspring，幫助設計硬件，這在當時並非易事。

We were trying to have the Springboard module.

我們正在嘗試使用 Springboard 模塊。

And the whole idea of an expanding platform was a really new idea.

而擴大平臺的整個想法也是一個非常新穎的想法。

And do it in a way that actually makes the experience much faster, much better.

而且，這樣做實際上會讓體驗更快、更好。

So I looked at the Game Boy and we said, oh, well, that's a plug thing too.

於是我看了看遊戲機，我們說，哦，那也是個插頭。

So we could expand this to all kinds of stuff.

是以，我們可以將其擴展到各種領域。

You could plug in not only hardware components, but you can plug in software and a backup card.

您不僅可以插入硬件組件，還可以插入軟件和備份卡。

In fact, there were very clever modules that people did in the slot.

事實上，人們在插槽中做了一些非常巧妙的模塊。

One of the first camera phones was in the slot done by IDEO.

最早的照相手機之一就出自 IDEO 之手。

My favorite was the guy who came up with a dental floss holder for the slot.

我最喜歡的是那個為插槽設計了牙線夾的人。

It was an MP3 player that you would plug in to the back and then you would have your MP3 interface on the front.

這是一個 MP3 播放器，你可以把它插在後面，然後在前面就有了 MP3 界面。

All of the stuff that you take for granted on your phone today, it's a camera, it plays music, it can connect to the internet, it can have lots of storage.

如今，你認為手機上的所有功能都是理所當然的，它可以拍照、播放音樂、連接互聯網、擁有大量存儲空間。

None of that was possible on PDAs at the time, but it all became possible on the Vizor through these little expansion modules.

這些在當時的 PDA 上都是不可能實現的，但在 Vizor 上，通過這些小擴展模塊，這一切都成為可能。

So, we're pretty excited about launching the Vizor.

是以，我們對推出 Vizor 感到非常興奮。

Now, this could have been a total coincidence. 3Com decided to announce that they were spinning off Palm into a separate company.

現在看來，這可能完全是個巧合。3Com 公司決定宣佈將 Palm 分拆為一家獨立公司。

Now, this was what we had wanted to do when we were still at 3Com.

這是我們還在 3Com 公司時就想做的事情。

And they said, no, we're not going to do that.

他們說，不，我們不會這麼做。

So, it seemed like a bit of a slap in the face, but it didn't dampen our enthusiasm too much.

是以，這似乎是一記耳光，但並沒有太影響我們的熱情。

Probably the bigger issue for the launch was that we decided that we would want to sell this product on the internet.

可能對產品發佈來說更大的問題是，我們決定要在互聯網上銷售這一產品。

But the web was really immature at the time.

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