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The Forgotten Apple CEO

Sabah Arif writes "Michael Spindler was supposed to be the savior of Apple. After four years at Apple, he was an executive vice president and had built Apple Europe to the point where it was providing 25% of Apple's revenues. Just the same, at the end of the day Spindler couldn't handle the stress or control the Apple organization. Low End Mac has an extensive biography of this figure in Apple's History." From the article: "Apple Europe ran out of a cramped 100 ft. office in Brussels and had only a few employees. Spindler had never worked at the startup before, but he liked it a lot. He had freedom to try almost anything he wanted. There were problems with working for such a young company, though. Spindler went without payment for almost six months because Apple didn't know how to move funds from California to Belgium."

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  1. Well now... by XXIstCenturyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple didn't know how to move funds from California to Belgium.

    Their paypal account was closed?

    1. Re:Well now... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      So you're saying you're single handly responsible for the Internet bust in Europe?

  2. What??? by adminsr · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do you work out of a 100 ft office? That's one-dimensional, which gets uncomfortable quite quickly.

    1. Re:What??? by TubeSteak · · Score: 1, Funny
      How do you work out of a 100 ft office? That's one-dimensional, which gets uncomfortable quite quickly.
      /me engages the reality distortion field
      Ahhh... it's much more comfortable now.
      Feels like a 1000ft^3 in here.
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      [Fuck Beta]
      o0t!
  3. Re:Should have stayed in Brussels by mjpaci · · Score: 3, Funny

    Silly you. Everyone knows that France is a break-away province of Germany. Hell, Germany even tried to real back in said province twice last century...

  4. Re:Should have stayed in Brussels by visgoth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Silly you, Europe is a breakaway province of Germany. They tried to reel it in twice last century, but had a bad time of it!

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    My patience is infinite, my time is not.
  5. Re:Jobs sold 300 Million USD of Apple stock by jcr · · Score: 5, Funny

    He has other assets he could sell or he could have gotten a low interest loan to cover the taxes till his Disney stock was released.

    Why don't you send him your resume, and apply to be his financial advisor?

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  6. Re:There's a reason he's forgotten by mkiwi · · Score: 3, Funny
    Amelio then came in with some business discipline, and Jobs finished the job with both vision and excellent execution.

    I could not have said it better myself. Off with their heads!

  7. Re:Spindler was ahead of his time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know what company you were referring to in your post, but it sure wasn't Apple.

    I'm pretty sure he was referring to Apple Music. It's so easy to confuse the two.

  8. Shit I wish I had that job by gelfling · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where I could be a bipolar fuckup and they pay me hundreds of millions of dollars to act in a soap opera. That would be awesome.