Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company by Patrick McGee (Hardcover)

In Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company, journalist Patrick McGee, who covered Apple for the Financial Times, investigates how the company came to rely so heavily on Chinese manufacturing, and how that relationship helped turn China into an electronics powerhouse. The story starts in the late 1990s, when a struggling Apple began moving production overseas.

McGee follows the engineers Apple sent to work inside Chinese suppliers, the enormous scale this unlocked in the iPhone era and the growing leverage it handed to Beijing. It suits readers interested in technology, supply chains and relations between the United States and China.

• Business history built on in-depth reporting
• Shows how the iPhone supply chain was created
• Weighs the risks of Apple's reliance on China
• Relevant to current debates on trade and tech policy

Details

• Author: Patrick McGee
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Year: 2025
• Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781398534360