Apple in China The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

Patrick McGee, Fred Sanders

eAudio - 2025

"Phenomenal...a jaw-dropping book." —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show Named by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Prospect magazine as a best book of the year, this "scrupulously reported" (The New Yorker) and "astonishing" (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 products on three continents, Apple turned to China's seemingly endless supply of cheap labor. It soon deployed thousands of engineers, trained millions of workers, and inve...sted hundreds of billions of dollars to create the most advanced global supply chain. These efforts fueled the iPhone's dominance—but also laid... more