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Apple in China : the capture of the world's greatest company
McGee, Patrick (Reporter)2025
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Click and Collect for Apple in China : the capture of the world's greatest companyApple isn't just a brand; it's the world's most valuable company and creator of the 21st century's defining product. The iPhone has revolutionized the way we live, work and connect. But Apple is now a victim of its own success, caught in the middle of a new Cold War between two superpowers. On the brink of bankruptcy in 1996, Apple shifted its operations offshore. By 2003 it was lured to China by the promise of affordable, ubiquitous labour. As the iPod and iPhone transformed Apple's fortunes, their sophisticated production played a seminal role in financing, training, supervising, and supplying Chinese manufacturers - skills Beijing is now weaponizing against the West. Investigative journalist Patrick McGee draws on 200 interviews with former Apple executives and engineers to reveal how Cupertino's choice to anchor its supply chain in China has increasingly made it vulnerable to the regime's whims. Both an insider's historical account and a cautionary tale, Apple in China is the first history of Apple to go beyond the biographies of its top executives and set the iPhone's global domination within an increasingly fraught geopolitical context.
Main title:
Apple in China : the capture of the world's greatest company / Patrick McGee.
Author:
McGee, Patrick (Reporter), author
Imprint:
London : Simon & Schuster, 2025.©2025
Collation:
x, 437 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781398534377978139853437797813985343609781398534377
Dewey class:
338.76213810951382.41411338.762
Language:
English
Subject:
Apple Computer, IncComputer industry -- China -- History -- 21st centuryComputer industry -- United States -- History -- 21st centuryComputer industry -- Technological innovations -- ChinaOffshore outsourcing -- ChinaChina -- Foreign economic relations -- United StatesUnited States -- Foreign economic relations -- China
BRN:
581855
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 338.762 MACG | In-transit from Sandringham Library to Brighton Library (Set: 17 Jun 2025) |
| Sandringham Library | Non Fiction | 382.41411 | On order |
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