Patrick McGee Apple in China review, recensie en informatie boek over de Chinese activiteiten van het Amerikaanse bedrijf. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Scribner het boek van de Amerikaanse journalist Patrick McGee over de Chinese activiteiten van Apple. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Patrick McGee Apple in China review en recensie
- “To call this book a page turner is to almost diminish ts importance. It is a once-in-a-generation read.Apple is more than the world’s greatest company. It is integral to the whole culture of globalization. Patrick McGee not only narrates the epic history of Apple, but explains how, in effect, it got taken over by China, the world’s greatest illiberal power.” (Robert D. Kaplan)
- “Apple in China reveals how Apple enabled China’s rise, seemingly at the cost of its own future. In these pages we watch as the world’s most profitable company gets outmaneuvered by the world’s most powerful dictator.” (Chris Miller)
Apple in China
The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
- Auteur: Patrick McGee (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: journalistiek economieboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Scribner
- Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
- Omvang: 448 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Prijs: $ 32,00 / $ 16,99 / $ 29.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek over Apple in China
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.
Patrick McGee was the Financial Times’s principal Apple reporter from 2019 to 2023, during which time he won a San Francisco Press Club Award for his coverage. He joined the newspaper in 2013, in Hong Kong, before reporting from Germany and California. Previously, he was a bond reporter at The Wall Street Journal. He has a master’s degree in global diplomacy from SOAS, University of London, and a degree in religious studies from the University of Toronto. He and his family make their home in the Bay Area.
