Book
Apple in China : the capture of the world's greatest company / Patrick McGee.
Looks at how Apple helped build China's dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing, only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668053379 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 437 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2025.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-423) and index. |
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| Subject: | Apple Computer, Inc. Computer industry > China > History. |
- B & T Entertainment
Is the sometimes disturbing and always revelatory story of how an outspoken, proud company that once praised ârebelsâ and âtroublemakersâ?â?the company that encouraged us all to âThink Differentâ?â?devolved into passively cooperating with a belligerent regime that increasingly controls its fate. - Baker & Taylor
Looks at how Apple helped build Chinaâs dominance in electronics assembly and manufacturing, only to find itself trapped in a relationship with an authoritarian state making ever-increasing demands. - Simon and Schuster
âPhenomenalâ¦a jaw-dropping book.â âJon Stewart, The Daily Show
Named by both The New York Times and The Economist as one of the best books of the year so far, this âscrupulously reportedâ (The New Yorker) and âastonishingâ (The Daily Telegraph, London) book rivets with its portrayal of how Apple allowed itself to become dependent on China for a huge percentage of its manufacturing, making it vulnerable and unwittingly laying the groundwork for the Asian superpower to rival the US in technological expertise.
After struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by Chinaâs seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. Soon it was sending thousands of engineers across the Pacific, training millions of workers, and spending hundreds of billions of dollars to create the worldâs most sophisticated supply chain. These capabilities enabled Apple to build the 21st centuryâs most iconic productsâin staggering volume and for enormous profit.
Without explicitly intending to, Apple built an advanced electronics industry within China, only to discover that its massive investments in technology upgrades had inadvertently given Beijing a power that could be weaponized.
In Apple in China, journalist Patrick McGee draws on more than two hundred interviews with former executives and engineers, supplementing their stories with unreported meetings held by Steve Jobs, emails between top executives, and internal memos regarding threats from Chinese competition. The book highlights the unknown characters who were instrumental in Appleâs ascent and who tried to forge a different path, including the Mormon missionary who established the Apple Store in China; the âGang of Eightâ executives tasked with placating Beijing; and an idealistic veteran whose hopes of improving the lives of factory workers were crushed by both Cupertinoâs operational demands and Xi Jinpingâs war on civil society.
Apple in China is the sometimes disturbing and always revelatory story of how an outspoken, proud company that once praised ârebelsâ and âtroublemakersââthe company that encouraged us all to âThink Differentââdevolved into passively cooperating with a belligerent regime that increasingly controls its fate.
