Apple in China
The Capture of the World's Greatest Company
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Narrated by:
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Fred Sanders
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Written by:
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Patrick McGee
About this listen
For listeners of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs and Chris Miller’s Chip War, a riveting look 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.
After struggling to build its products on three continents, Apple was lured by China’s 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 world’s most sophisticated supply chain. These capabilities enabled Apple to build the 21st century’s most iconic products—in 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 Apple’s ascent and who tried to forge a different path, including the Mormon missionary who established the Apple Store in China; the “Gang of Eight” executives tasked with placating Beijing; and an idealistic veteran whose hopes of improving the lives of factory workers were crushed by both Cupertino’s operational demands and Xi Jinping’s war on civil society.
Apple in China is the sometimes disturbing and always revelatory story of how an outspoken, proud company that once praised “rebels” and “troublemakers”—the company that encouraged us all to “Think Different”—devolved into passively cooperating with a belligerent regime that increasingly controls its fate.
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- Good Design, Questionable Stitching
- 2025-05-28
A Fair Recount of Situations and Events
The account of events without pro or anti American propaganda. A telling of situations and events from many veiw points.
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- gordon mcdowell
- 2025-06-13
A lot.
Apple in China is a lot. Great for anyone even remotely interested in Apple or tech or trade wars or product design. If none of those topic interest you then I give you 1 star, reader.
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- Alan Tomlin
- 2025-06-19
Why China is winning
Great story that outlines why the USA is rusting out and where shareholder first profits have taken us all.
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- Becca D
- 2025-06-11
Extremely Fascinating
This Book is clear and concise and easy to follow and describes how Apple helped (not necessarily intentionally) position China to becoming a manufacturing and technological Super Power.
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- Brad M.
- 2025-06-24
History of how Apple unwittingly got captured
Great storyline so compelling and still very direct including all the historical data. Strongly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 2025-06-14
Great book, but AI audio it's horrible.
the story is great if you are into tech, supply chain mgmt, and computers in general. unfortunately the AI they have reading is terrible. No punctuation, questionless sentences read like questions, just all around not good. I'm having issues finishing it. Like the other reviewer said, they need to flag books read by robots.
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- brendan preston
- 2025-05-30
Sounds like Ai
Great book. Too bad it’s read by Ai tho, really detracts from the experience. Audible should flag these.
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- Anonymous User
- 2025-06-23
AI reader is a struggle.
Book content itself is great. The "narrator" unfortunately isn't up to par. 100% generated voice with emphasis and punctuation seemingly all over the place.
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