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ON THE FIRING LINE: MY 500 DAYS AT APPLE
500 days of apple on thin ice (Japanese Version)

Gil Amelio was the president of Rockwell International Company, CEO of National Semiconductor Company, who worked as president and CEO of Apple Computer from the beginning of 1996 until the summer of 1997. In this book, from the inauguration of CEO of Amelio until his resignation, it is described frankly and scrupulous. The inside facts of a number of important episodes such as the full accounts of Apple's selling outrage, the history of the buying up of NeXT Inc. are revealed and it is indispensable for analyzing Apple from 1996 to 1997. The most interesting thing is Amelio's honest speech, which clearly shows the opportunities at the time of the scout, financial conditions, history of financial negotiations at the time of resignation, and thoughts on Steve Jobs. Although corporate acquisitions and scouts are common in the United States, "The reward money received by the CEO of a company is the same as the famous athlete and the moderator of the TV station, and it is expressed as the criterion as to how motivated the person himself", I am aware of the fact that the culture of companies and managers in the United States and Japan are greatly different.

The upper left picture is the first edition of the United States. Drawing Amelio with 6 color apple on his head, the illustration of the apple used in the sentence is slightly popping like that both sides are caught, and I think they matches well with the personality of Amelio and the light touch (?) of this book..
On the other hand, the Japanese version translates "On The Firing Line" as "500 days on thin ice", and treats the apple with ice on the cover as a serious business book. In the Japanese version, it is kind that the profile of the main characters and the related chronology from October 1994 to July 1998 are at the end of the book, and devised to help readers understand.

On The Firing Line My 500 Days at Apple, Gil Amerio, William L. Simon, 1998, HarperCollins Publications, Inc., 298 pages, B5version.

500 days of Apple Thin Ice, Gil Amerio, William L. Simon, translated by Yuu Nakayama, August 1998, Softbank, 433 pages, A5 edition.


APPLE THE INSIDE STORY OF INTRIGUE, EGOMANIA, AND BUSINESS BLUNDERS
Apple 20 years of geniuses who changed the worldJapanese Version

The title of the original book is "Apple The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders", reconstructing the history of Apple Computer to the present day through interviews of over 160 people, including the past CEOs, executives, employees. The author is Jim Carlton who is a reporter in charge of technology in the San Francisco area and has been thoroughly interviewed since 1993. 93 The book starts the dismissal of Scully on June 17, 1993, it has a weave structure of the history of these 20 years of Apple as the inside story until about the summer of 1998, followed by Scully -, Swindler -, Amelio, Jobs and so on,
For example, with respect to the agreement between Apple and Microsoft concerning the licensing of a graphical user interface (GUI) to Windows for 1985, it is described in detail about the negotiation process between Gates and Sculley, I can know the magnitude of the influence this negotiation was later confirmed by not MacOS but Microsoft Windows had on the process of establishing as a global standard.

Especially in the latter half, this book was drawing the same era as Amelio's book "500 days of Apple Thin Ice", so it is interesting when you compare to read them, you can understand the difference between the assertion from Amelio and the situation analysis from Carlton's viewpoint outside the company.
Upper Left is the first edition of the United States. In the first edition of the United States, in accordance with the story from before the dismissal of Amelio on July 9, 1997 (Chapter 16), in the Japanese version, following the subsequent movements, the end portion of Chapter 16 has been rewritten and 17 A chapter has been added. In Chapter 17 iMac announcement until May 1998 is followed. It is an essential book for knowing the glory decline and resurrection of the history of 20 years of Apple Computer.

Apple The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders, published by Jim Carton, November 1997, Randomhouse, Inc., 464 pages, B5version.

Apple Twenty years after the geniuses who changed the world, Jim Carlton, Haruhito Yamazaki, September 1998, Hayakawa Shobo, first volume 379 pages, second volume 366 pages, A5 version.Apple The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders

INFINITE LOOP
HOW APPLE, THE WORLD'S MOST INSANELY GREAT COMPUTER COMPANY, WENT INSANE

This book with a subtitle titled "How apple the world’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane" reviewed the 20 years that followed the company's innovation from the founding of Apple Computer Inc. to the launch of iMac, analyze whether Apple has been running the head of the personal computer industry in Silicon Valley. Author Michael S. Malone is from Silicon Valley and is a former journalist for San Jose Mercury News. The editorial stuff of Forbes ASAP magazine at the time of publication. Although no particular novelty point is found, in order to trace the history of Apple, it is gathered neatly in time series, and it is a book which is convenient for encyclopaque use including the index at the end of the book and reference list etc. "Infinite Loop" seems to have been attached to Jobs' return, named after iMac's "Hello Again".

Infinite Loop, How Apple, the World's Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane, published by Michael S. Malone, March 1999, Randomhouse, Inc., 598 pages, B5 version.


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