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By 1996 Apple's share of the market had fallen to 4% from a high of 16% in the late 1980s.
到1996年，蘋果的市場份額已經從80年代末的高達16%下降到4%。
Michael Spindler, the German-born chief of Apple's European operations who had replaced Sculley as CEO in 1993,
1993年取代斯卡利擔任蘋果CEO的邁克爾·斯平德勒，
tried to sell the company to Sun, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard.
試圖把公司賣給太陽微系統、IBM和惠普。
That failed, and he was ousted in February 1996 and replaced by Gil Amelio, a research engineer who was CEO of National Semiconductor.
失敗后，斯平德勒在1996年2月被吉爾·阿梅里奧取代，吉爾是一位研發工程師，曾任國家半導體公司的CEO。
During his first year the company lost $1 billion,
在他任期的第一年，蘋果公司虧損了10億美元，
and the stock price, which had been $70 in 1991, fell to $14, even as the tech bubble was pushing other stocks into the stratosphere.
股票價格從1991年時的70美元暴跌到14美元，而當時，高科技泡沫正把其他股票的價格推向史無前例的高點。
Amelio was not a fan of Jobs. Their first meeting had been in 1994, just after Amelio was elected to the Apple board.
阿梅里奧并不是喬布斯的粉絲。他們第一次見面是在1994年，當時阿梅里奧剛剛被選入蘋果的董事會。
Jobs had called him and announced, "I want to come over and see you."
喬布斯給他打電話說，“我想過去見你。”
Amelio invited him over to his office at National Semiconductor,
阿梅里奧于是邀請他到國家半導體公司的辦公室，
and he later recalled watching through the glass wall of his office as Jobs arrived.
后來阿梅里奧回憶了當時透過辦公室的玻璃墻看著喬布斯到來的情景。
He looked "rather like a boxer, aggressive and elusively graceful, or like an elegant jungle cat ready to spring at its prey."
他看起來“像個拳擊手，富有攻擊性又帶著難以捉摸的優雅，或者說像一只高貴的叢林貓，時刻準備撲向獵物”。
After a few minutes of pleasantries -- far more than Jobs usually engaged in -- he abruptly announced the reason for his visit.
他們寒暄了幾分鐘--這已經遠遠超過了喬布斯習慣的長度，然后喬布斯突然宣布了他的來意。
