Why read Apple in China?

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“Phenomenal…a jaw-dropping book.” —Jon Stewart, The Daily Show

Named by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Prospect magazine as a best book of the year, this “scrupulously reported” (The New Yorker) and “astonishing” (The Daily Telegraph, London) book rivets with its portrayal of how Apple allowed itself…

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1 author picked Apple in China as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ken Wilcox

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I was engrossed by this crisp, deeply researched book by a journalist who wrote for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing and the Financial Times in Hong Kong.

I grieved at his description of how Apple has ended up transferring all its advanced technological knowledge to its Chinese workers and vendors. When Apple set up a factory in the U.S. in the early 2020s, it brought over Chinese engineers from China to bring it online.

While sad for Apple, I was glad to see that others, in the first company to be worth a trillion dollars, made the same mistakes…

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