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Apple in China the capture of the world's greatest company

"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...

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Main Author: McGee, Patrick (Reporter) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Scribner, 2025.
Edition:First Scribner hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Computer industry > United States > History.
Offshore outsourcing > China.
Computer industry > China > History.
Computer industry > Technological innovations > China.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: "Incomparable" arrogance
  • Part 1. Saving Apple: The brink of bankruptcy
  • Adventures in outsourcing : Japan and Taiwan
  • An "outrageous" acquisition
  • Columbus : a New World of computing
  • "Unmanufacturable" : the iMac
  • Part 2. Apple's long march to China: Out of the Asian financial crisis : South Korea
  • LG goes global : Wales and Mexico
  • The Taishang : Taiwanese on the mainland
  • The Silicon Valley of hardware : "Foxconn isn't called 'Fox-con' for nothing"
  • IBM West : the rise of Tim Cook
  • Foxconn goes global : China, California, and the Czech Republic
  • A farewell to Mactories
  • Part 3. Siren song : consolidation: 1,000 songs : making the iPod in Taiwan
  • Flat-out cool! : making the iMac G4 across Asia
  • "You're going to give us your 'China cost' for this"
  • The replica : making the iPod in China
  • Project purple in Asia
  • The one device
  • The Apple shock
  • Part 4. Insatiable demand : the iPhone in China: The missionary
  • The sewing machine repair shop
  • Yellow cows in the gray market
  • "Fire that motherfucker!"
  • Twin bets : Foxconn and TSMC
  • "The Navy SEALs"
  • Part 5. Political awakening: The despot
  • The gang of eight
  • The China whisperer
  • Voluntary is the new mandatory
  • The Apple squeeze
  • A Marshall plan for China
  • Bureaucratic protection
  • Part 6. Red Apple: Cognitive dissonance : supplier responsibility
  • The figurehead : Isabel Mahe
  • The Red supply chain
  • "5 alarm fire"
  • The Huawei threat
  • Global pandemic
  • "An unprecedented nightmare for Apple"
  • Plan B : assembled in India?
  • A staggering vulnerability : TSMC
  • Conclusion: Unwritten legacy.

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