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Apple in China

The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

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Apple in China

De: Patrick McGee
Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Patrick McGee
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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 to become dependent on China for a huge percentage of its manufacturing, making it vulnerable and unwittingly laying the groundwork for the Asian superpower to rival the US in technological expertise.

After struggling to build products on three continents, Apple turned to China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor. It soon deployed thousands of engineers, trained millions of workers, and invested hundreds of billions of dollars to create the most advanced global supply chain. These efforts fueled the iPhone’s dominance—but also laid the foundation for a powerful, state-supported Chinese electronics industry. What began as a business decision evolved into a cautionary tale of global trade, tech rivalry, and national security.

Without intending to, Apple helped Beijing acquire technological influence that could now be weaponized—a central concern in the ongoing US-China tech war. Drawing on over two hundred interviews, Patrick McGee exposes never-before-reported details from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen: internal emails, secretive executive meetings, and overlooked voices inside the company’s China operations.

You’ll meet the “Gang of Eight” executives tasked with appeasing Beijing, a Mormon missionary who launched Apple retail in China, and a veteran whose dreams of improving factory conditions were crushed by both Apple’s demands and Xi Jinping’s authoritarian crackdown. From Foxconn and Tim Cook to the Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan Semiconductor, this is a revelatory look at how Apple, in seeking efficiency, became entangled in the very politics it once claimed to challenge.

For readers of Chip War, American Factory, and The Big Short, Apple in China is a searing examination of corporate power, Chinese nationalism, deglobalization, and the fragile relationship between Silicon Valley and the world’s rising superpower. Economía Geopolítica Globalización Internacional Política y Gobierno Relaciones Internacionales China Tecnología Guerra
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Frankly it felt like a bit of a hatchet job, rather than a balanced reporting. More bothersome to me, is although it claims to be Fred Sanders, I’d swear it’s an AI voice. The intonation doesn’t sound human.

Some new information

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The research and content of this book is amazing. I’ve lived and worked with most of the Apple products described, and knew the bulk of the historical details. The assessment of the current (dire) situation with China is well supported by the available facts.

Unfortunately (and I say this as a voice actor who has generally been impressed by Audible’s readers), this narrator falls short.

At several points, I wondered whether or not it was an AI generated voice, but then realized that those don’t stumble as badly over some fairly simple (linguistically) sentences.

Then there are the points at which I thought the reader was a different person. I know and understand that long form VO requires practice to make it sound like an insert happened on the same day, in the same moment as the original recording. How does a book this important get read by such an (apparently) inexperienced reader?

There are literally THOUSANDS of competent voice actors out there searching for work, and not able to get Audible’s attention. I shouldn’t be able to listen to a book and logically conclude that I could do better myself.

However, I’m wishing I’d bought the book, recorded myself reading it, and then been able to pass my own read along to my friends who are interested in the Apple/China relationship.

I apologize to the person who booked this job for the harsh assessment, but please, get more training.

And Audible? Do better.

Great story, but a disappointing reader

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No matter what the Trump administration wants to do, Apple can't leave China in the next 5 years.

Predicts the Future

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This was really good. I knew that Apple had complex relationships with China and other countries, but this really lays out the development and how we got to where we are today. And also the risk that looms.

Behind the curtain of Apple operations

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Narration sounds like AI to me and it's just not good enough yet. If it's not AI then I'm not sure what to say. Either way it is tolerable but not good.

Good book bad narrator

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