CEO Problems

In June 1993, John Sculley was asked to leave Apple because of his lack of interest in the company. To replace him was former COO Michael Spindler. Even though spindler was an impersonal man, he gave Apple some success. First, in 1994, Apple introduced its PowerMac family. The PowerMac family ran on a PowerPC chip that competed with Intel's line of chips. In a bold move, Spindler attempted to license Mac OS to different companies, but was met with little success. However the success of the PowerMac's was downplayed by the fact that Apple had $1 billion in back orders during summer of 1995 because they lacked the parts to construct the computers. In 1996, Spindler was asked to leave Apple and was replaced by Gil Amelio. Amelio attempted to bring Apple back from the dead. He oversaw the acquisition of NeXT, which would be incorporated into Macs new OS, this was a great gain, but Apple's quarterly losses were far to great for Apple to keep him any longer.