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Excerpts: Apple’s Reclusive Chairman Joins CEO on the Hot Seat as Firm Seeks to Regain Footing As Apple Computer lurches along in crisis mode, beset by losses, operational problems, executive departures and incessant takeover rumors, more and more observers are questioning the leadership not only of much-maligned Chief Executive Michael Spindler, but of the company’s […]

Excerpts: “Intel and Microsoft Added to Apple Lawsuit.” “One of our big leads in the industry is in multimedia,” said Michael H. Spindler, Apple’s chairman. “This has been an area of major investment for Apple. This is one of our battle horses.” Apple officials characterized the action of adding its two competitors to the suit

Excerpts: Apple Polisher For Michael H. Spindler, it was the year of living pragmatically. In 1994, Apple Computer Inc.’s new, no-nonsense CEO proved that his no-frills style was just what the freewheeling but ailing computer maker needed. The 52-year-old Spindler, nicknamed “the diesel” for his hard-charging ways, pared costs and made Apple efficient enough to

Excerpts: Michael Spindler’s Apple In the black expanse of the theater in the Las Vegas Aladdin hotel, a single spotlight beats down on Michael H. Spindler, the new CEO of beleaguered Apple Computer Inc. “I could see myself being a grandfather sitting with a grandchild on my lap in a tomato field saying: ‘I didn’t