Patrick McGee

Quite an interesting choice: the Mandarin translation of “Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company” by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social is among the many books bought by Taiwan’s President Lai at the opening of the 2025 Taipei Book Fair.

2. “Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company” by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social.

I’m not generally a fan of business books, but this is an extraordinary and gripping story with major geopolitical implications.

How has Apple become dependent on China to manufacture its products? To what extent has Apple shaped supply chains in China? In our latest episode @patrickmcgee.bsky.social and Jianggan Li answer questions of how interdependent China and Apple have become.

Listen here: omny.fm/shows/the-li...

Apple in China *** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** * WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2025 FOR BUSINESS REPORTING * ‘Absolutely riveting’ Peter ...

Apple in China by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social

I learned *so* much from this book, and enjoyed myself immensely in the process. You can't really ask for more than that in a book tbh.

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Best China Books of 2025 | China Books Review Identity issues. Migrant stories. Company profiles. Lost daughters. Daddy issues. Our annual round-up of notable books on or from China, nonfiction and literature, nominated by experts.

Best China Books of 2025 @chinabooksreview.com: great list with @emilyzfeng.bsky.social Dan Wang @evadou.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social Barbara Demick and others. I just ordered the book by Minxin Pei. Huge thanks to @vicshih.bsky.social for including me

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📚 Politics & Reportage winners 📚

GET IN by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund

BETWEEN THE WAVES by @tommctague.bsky.social

BUCKLEY by Sam Tanenhaus

APPLE IN CHINA by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social

EMPIRE OF AI by @karenhao.bsky.social

Commerce and Moral Compromise in Contemporary China A review of Patrick McGee, “Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company” (Scribner, 2025).

A good review by @michael-feinberg.bsky.social of Patrick McGee's book APPLE IN CHINA: THE CAPTURE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMPANY, with some extra insights from Feinberg (given what his previous role at the FBI was):

For what it's worth, the very best books of 2025, in no particular order. Thank you @johnharris1969.bsky.social @stuartgillespie.bsky.social @duncanweldon.bsky.social @johncassidysays.bsky.social @patrickmcgee.bsky.social @jonawils.bsky.social

Apple to beat Samsung in smartphone shipments for first time in 14 years Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC....

Apple will ship about 243 million phones this year, compared to Samsung’s 235 million, according to CNBC.
https://sherwood.news/tech/apple-to-beat-samsung-in-smartphone-shipments-for-first-time-in-14-years/

A great book with a great title about this: Red Carpet.

Why Did Apple Remove China’s Gay Dating Apps? Patrick McGee, author of ‘Apple in China,’ on how the company’s quiet removal of two major gay dating apps shows how deeply the company is entangled in Beijing’s political agenda.

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Just finished “Apple in China” by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social – holy shit it was a brilliant read. A densely researched story of how Apple drove the rise of China’s tech industry and advanced manufacturing capability, creating a tonne of geopolitical risk in the process.

(Sent from my iPad.)

Patrick McGee on Apple in China Register now to hear Patrick McGee talk about the story of how Apple became dependent on China for its manufacturing, and what that means for China’s technology rivalry with the United States.

On October 22 (Wed), I'll be talking to @patrickmcgee.bsky.social about his book on how Apple became inseparable with the Chinese market and factories. Come see us in person at @asiasociety.org! You can register below 👇🏻

On Oct. 22, @chinabooksreview.com hosts a conversation with @patrickmcgee.bsky.social and @zeyiyang.bsky.social of @wired.com to discuss the story of how Apple tied its fortunes to America's biggest rival and how that transformed both company and country.

YouTube video by Nieuwsuur Hoe Apple van China een technologische supermacht maakte

Niet zo lang geleden betekende 'Made in China' vooral: goedkoop. Tegenwoordig staat het juist voor kwaliteit.

Een cruciale factor in China's tech-succes is, verrassend genoeg, het Amerikaanse megabedrijf Apple. Hoe dat zit, zie je hier:

I spent most of the day in the car listening to Apple In China by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social and it's wild how much money, talent, and intellectual property was shipped to China by Apple over the last few decades. Imagine if that had been spent here.

Highly recommend the book!

The Bluesky-ization of the American left Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.

Fantastic piece: the Bluesky-ization of the American Left.

I envy how consistently good Noah’s writing is. @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev

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Apple in China *** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***  ‘Absolutely riveting’ Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads‘Disturbing and enlightening’ Chris Miller, a...

Just finished the really excellent book "Apple in China", by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social - highly recommend!

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“Apple in China” by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social is easily the best book I’ve read about modern-day Apple. By a mile.

★★★★★

I say that as someone who makes a living talking about Apple.

Apple in China *** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ***  ‘Absolutely riveting’ Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads‘Disturbing and enlightening’ Chris Miller, a...

Great book and fantastic read by @patrickmcgee.bsky.social, w lots of impressions. For varieties of capitalism nerds, a really interesting insight into incremental improvement in production process over time - something more appropriate to coordinated market economies than liberal market ones...

Solid review from a fellow Calgarian 🍁

Apple in China: Patrick McGee Unpacks a High-Stakes Global Story TOI Bookmark · Episode

*New* podcast about APPLE IN CHINA with Jaya Bhattacharji Rose for the The Times Of India:

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@jbhattacharjirose.bsky.social

Yeah I think that’s fair

China book recommendations for summer and fall according to
Table.Briefings: new work by @evadou.bsky.social,
@patrickmcgee.bsky.social, my own "The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping," and others

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Time is running out for Tim Cook

Read the whole essay here:

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And, of course, much more in my book: AppleInChina.com

So it’s disconcerting that 15 months after the announcement, a personalised Siri still doesn’t exist, the ads promoting it have been pulled, and Apple has been forced to acknowledge it doesn’t know when the features might be ready.

If Apple can make it work, it could offer 1.5bn users a compelling reason to upgrade their device every 24 months, as on-device chipsets improve.

That would justify Apple’s high valuation. But, says Craig Moffett, “that whole logic disappears if Apple ends up capitulating to a cloud-based model”.

When Cook unveiled “Apple Intelligence” last year, the promise was an assistant that could mine texts and emails to deliver personalised answers — not by taking data from the cloud, but mining for data “on device”. That’s something ChatGPT can’t do on the iPhone, because apps are sandboxed.

Apple’s AI missteps are the most glaring.

Siri, once a pioneer among voice assistants, now feels “as dumb as a rock”, to quote Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.

Apple killed its decade-long electric car project just as Chinese rivals Huawei and Xiaomi expanded their own. Apple’s only meaningful new product this decade is the Vision Pro, a tech marvel lacking content. Apple has superb tech capabilities, held back by a lack of strategic vision.