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  1. Review: Apple In China by Patrick McGee

    Timing is everything. As I began to write this short review of Patrick McGee’s new book Apple in China, this article, Auto Shangai 2025 Wasn’t Just a Car Show. It Was a Warning to the West, popped up on my radar. Let’s just say, they are nice companion pieces, given what I think the real message of McGee’s book is all about.

    I highly recommend McGee’s Apple in China. It not only provides some rich history and context to much of the hurly burly news we follow about Apple and its relationship with China, but beneath that surface it provides a deeper warning about the failures of capitalism — Apple and American style — in general.

    Not only does it hit that crucially important overlay of the story, it provides some fascinating, and at times frightening detail in many of the design, engineering, corporate, and political maneuverings far beneath the surface of all the machinations we read about on our iPhones.

    In my opinion, that’s where the real magic is in the story. Given the amount of detail, McGee had access to some excellent sources. He’s an excellent writer. Portions of the story read with the pace, suspense, and scope of an adventure novel.

    The focus of the book — and any of the praise and criticism of it — is obviously Apple. The gist is that Apple essentially trained up China to such a point, that with the pull of a plug, China can cut it off, and take what it has learned to dominate the world’s manufacturing sectors. His arguments are persuasive, and since Apple is — and has been — such a crucial focus since the dawn of the iPhone age, that focus makes sense. But lurking beneath those headlines, are other American companies, occasionally mentioned, who might not have gained the same notoriety, but essentially followed the same path. Check out the article I linked to earlier about the Shanghai Auto Show.

    If there’s a villain in the story, it’s China. If there’s a useful idiot, it’s Apple, along with other shareholder valuing and profit loving American companies. Think of the parable of The Scorpion and the Frog.

    Certainly Tim Cook plays a central role in all of this, but I have to say outside of some of the details, his obsequious compromises and acquiescence throughout comes as no more of surprise revelation as does his knee-bending to the Trump regime’s recent bullying. That’s all been on transparent display for anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention, which makes any and all of it seem nothing short of a foolish farce, albeit a lucrative one.

    In fact, I think you learn more about Foxconn’s Terry Gou than you do about Tim Cook.

    If there is one big surprise that I think pierces the Apple aura, it’s just how little central control and understanding of what was happening on the ground in China in the helter-skelter days of early iPhone growth. What on the surface may have seemed like, and been adopted almost as mantra-like by the tech press, a giant corporation with a vision pushing buttons in Monday morning executive meetings, often feels like a company reacting to forces beyond its control that it brought into the tent.

    The fact that Apple was as completely overwhelmed by early iPhone sales volume in China is quite frankly astounding, given what most have believed was a generally good central command of inventory control and marketing predictions. Certainly no one can predict everything, but it seems Apple wasn’t even close to understanding, much less predicting, what might happen in that market. Even as it was unfolding.

    Obviously Apple won most of those skirmishes and battles. The question the book raises is will Apple have what it takes to win the larger war that it helped set the battlefield for.

    (I don’t do affiliate links to products mentioned in any article.)

    You can find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above. 

    #ai #Apple #AppleInChina #books #China #PatrickMcGee #Politics #technology #TerryGou

  2. At least 99% of the roughly $3B invested came from overseas, including $2B from #SaudiArabia’s Public Investment Fund [#PIF].

    Most of the rest comes from the sovereign wealth funds of #Qatar & the #UAE, as well as a chunk from #TerryGou, Taiwan billionaire & founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer.

    But there is a 5th “mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify,” acc/to the letter the cmte sent this week.

    #law #corruption #bribery #Trump #FARA

  3. At least 99% of the roughly $3B invested came from overseas, including $2B from #SaudiArabia’s Public Investment Fund [#PIF].

    Most of the rest comes from the sovereign wealth funds of #Qatar & the #UAE, as well as a chunk from #TerryGou, Taiwan billionaire & founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer.

    But there is a 5th “mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify,” acc/to the letter the cmte sent this week.

    #law #corruption #bribery #Trump #FARA

  4. At least 99% of the roughly $3B invested came from overseas, including $2B from #SaudiArabia’s Public Investment Fund [#PIF].

    Most of the rest comes from the sovereign wealth funds of #Qatar & the #UAE, as well as a chunk from #TerryGou, Taiwan billionaire & founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer.

    But there is a 5th “mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify,” acc/to the letter the cmte sent this week.

    #law #corruption #bribery #Trump #FARA

  5. At least 99% of the roughly $3B invested came from overseas, including $2B from #SaudiArabia’s Public Investment Fund [#PIF].

    Most of the rest comes from the sovereign wealth funds of #Qatar & the #UAE, as well as a chunk from #TerryGou, Taiwan billionaire & founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer.

    But there is a 5th “mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify,” acc/to the letter the cmte sent this week.

    #law #corruption #bribery #Trump #FARA

  6. At least 99% of the roughly $3B invested came from overseas, including $2B from #SaudiArabia’s Public Investment Fund [#PIF].

    Most of the rest comes from the sovereign wealth funds of #Qatar & the #UAE, as well as a chunk from #TerryGou, Taiwan billionaire & founder of Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer.

    But there is a 5th “mystery foreign investor Affinity has declined to identify,” acc/to the letter the cmte sent this week.

    #law #corruption #bribery #Trump #FARA

  7. Huawei i Sharp zawarły pakt patentowy

    Ktoś się zaraz zapyta dlaczego japońska firma Shrap ma iść na rękę chińskiemu konkurentowi. Sęk w tym, że od 2016 roku właścicielem Sharp jest tajwańska firma Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., znana powszechnie pod nazwą… Foxconn.

    wp.me/p3fv0T-fNo #Japonia #Tajwan #Chiny #ChRL #Foxconn #Sharp #Huawei #patenty #pakt #TerryGou #5G #4G

  8. Huawei i Sharp zawarły pakt patentowy

    Ktoś się zaraz zapyta dlaczego japońska firma Shrap ma iść na rękę chińskiemu konkurentowi. Sęk w tym, że od 2016 roku właścicielem Sharp jest tajwańska firma Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., znana powszechnie pod nazwą… Foxconn.

    wp.me/p3fv0T-fNo #Japonia #Tajwan #Chiny #ChRL #Foxconn #Sharp #Huawei #patenty #pakt #TerryGou #5G #4G

  9. I do call #TerryGou's candidacy for president in #Taiwan a "vanity project" for a good reason: In late September and early October, Gou had spent massively to advertise his entry into the race with the slogan "Good Timing". Be it on countless busses or on larger-than-life posters: Old Terry was watching you all over Taiwan a couple of weeks ago.
    Well, at least some advertisers made good money with this, as did those who gave a signature for cash.
    Photo taken in #Kaohsiung, by the way. #elections

  10. I do call #TerryGou's candidacy for president in #Taiwan a "vanity project" for a good reason: In late September and early October, Gou had spent massively to advertise his entry into the race with the slogan "Good Timing". Be it on countless busses or on larger-than-life posters: Old Terry was watching you all over Taiwan a couple of weeks ago.
    Well, at least some advertisers made good money with this, as did those who gave a signature for cash.
    Photo taken in #Kaohsiung, by the way. #elections

  11. Meanwhile #TerryGou has quit his vanity project of becoming #Taiwan's next president after #FoxConn aka #HonHai got away with less than USD 3000.- in fines in #China for not reporting all tax details correctly. Very hard to imagine that these two things were unrelated...
    Still, #WilliamLai and the #DPP are leading the field of candidates, and Lai's pick for his running mate #HsiaoBikhim is a very clever choice - no matter what the #KMT is nagging on about. #elections 2/2

  12. Meanwhile #TerryGou has quit his vanity project of becoming #Taiwan's next president after #FoxConn aka #HonHai got away with less than USD 3000.- in fines in #China for not reporting all tax details correctly. Very hard to imagine that these two things were unrelated...
    Still, #WilliamLai and the #DPP are leading the field of candidates, and Lai's pick for his running mate #HsiaoBikhim is a very clever choice - no matter what the #KMT is nagging on about. #elections 2/2

  13. Będzie wspólny kandydat opozycji na Tajwanie?

    Teoretycznie to może wywrócić wszystkie przewidywania dotyczące wyborów prezydenckich w styczniu. W parlamencie Demokratyczna Partia Postępu (DPP) raczej nie ma szans na utrzymanie większości, ale dotychczasowe sondaże dawały wygodną przewagę jej kandydatowi na prezydenta - Williamowi Lai Ching-te.

    wp.me/p3fv0T-fJG #POLECANE #Tajwan #wybory #opozycja #KMT #TPP #sojusz #DPP #WilliamLai #TerryGou #KoWenJe #HouYuIh

  14. Będzie wspólny kandydat opozycji na Tajwanie?

    Teoretycznie to może wywrócić wszystkie przewidywania dotyczące wyborów prezydenckich w styczniu. W parlamencie Demokratyczna Partia Postępu (DPP) raczej nie ma szans na utrzymanie większości, ale dotychczasowe sondaże dawały wygodną przewagę jej kandydatowi na prezydenta - Williamowi Lai Ching-te.

    wp.me/p3fv0T-fJG #POLECANE #Tajwan #wybory #opozycja #KMT #TPP #sojusz #DPP #WilliamLai #TerryGou #KoWenJe #HouYuIh

  15. iPhone-maker Foxconn faces investigation in China over tax and land use

    China's tax authorities have initiated probes into Foxconn, the company responsible for manufacturing Apple's iPhone.

    The move come just months after Foxconn's founder, Terry Gou, announced his bid for the Taiwan presidential elections.

    computing.co.uk/news/4137579/i

    #technews #foxconn #china #terrygou #apple

  16. iPhone-maker Foxconn faces investigation in China over tax and land use

    China's tax authorities have initiated probes into Foxconn, the company responsible for manufacturing Apple's iPhone.

    The move come just months after Foxconn's founder, Terry Gou, announced his bid for the Taiwan presidential elections.

    computing.co.uk/news/4137579/i

    #technews #foxconn #china #terrygou #apple

  17. iPhone-maker Foxconn faces investigation in China over tax and land use

    China's tax authorities have initiated probes into Foxconn, the company responsible for manufacturing Apple's iPhone.

    The move come just months after Foxconn's founder, Terry Gou, announced his bid for the Taiwan presidential elections.

    computing.co.uk/news/4137579/i

    #technews #foxconn #china #terrygou #apple

  18. iPhone-maker Foxconn faces investigation in China over tax and land use

    China's tax authorities have initiated probes into Foxconn, the company responsible for manufacturing Apple's iPhone.

    The move come just months after Foxconn's founder, Terry Gou, announced his bid for the Taiwan presidential elections.

    computing.co.uk/news/4137579/i

    #technews #foxconn #china #terrygou #apple

  19. iPhone-maker Foxconn faces investigation in China over tax and land use

    China's tax authorities have initiated probes into Foxconn, the company responsible for manufacturing Apple's iPhone.

    The move come just months after Foxconn's founder, Terry Gou, announced his bid for the Taiwan presidential elections.

    computing.co.uk/news/4137579/i

    #technews #foxconn #china #terrygou #apple

  20. Pekin karci Terry'ego Gou?

    Założyciel Foxconn Terry Gou przez lata żył w symbiozie z partyjnymi bonzami w ChRL. Bez tego nie dorobiłby się fortuny, ale we wrześniu zgłosił kandydaturę na prezydenta Tajwanu. Chociaż nie ma szans na wygraną to odebrał sporo poparcia Hou You-yi z Kuomintang. Czyżby akcja przeciwko jego operacjom w ChRL, była karą ze strony Pekinu, że utrudnia działanie Kuomintang, na którą stawia KPCh?

    wp.me/p3fv0T-fFf #Foxconn #Tajwan #Chiny #ChRL #podatki #kontrola #audyt #wybory #TerryGou #KMT #POLECANE

  21. Pekin karci Terry'ego Gou?

    Założyciel Foxconn Terry Gou przez lata żył w symbiozie z partyjnymi bonzami w ChRL. Bez tego nie dorobiłby się fortuny, ale we wrześniu zgłosił kandydaturę na prezydenta Tajwanu. Chociaż nie ma szans na wygraną to odebrał sporo poparcia Hou You-yi z Kuomintang. Czyżby akcja przeciwko jego operacjom w ChRL, była karą ze strony Pekinu, że utrudnia działanie Kuomintang, na którą stawia KPCh?

    wp.me/p3fv0T-fFf #Foxconn #Tajwan #Chiny #ChRL #podatki #kontrola #audyt #wybory #TerryGou #KMT #POLECANE

  22. Chinese authorities are again shaking the confidence of foreign companies in the country with a series of arrests and an investigation into Foxconn Technology Group, Apple’s most important partner and one of the largest employers in China. japantimes.co.jp/business/2023 #business #companies #china #foxconn #honhai #terrygou #taiwan #apple #tesla #amazon

  23. Chinese authorities are again shaking the confidence of foreign companies in the country with a series of arrests and an investigation into Foxconn Technology Group, Apple’s most important partner and one of the largest employers in China. japantimes.co.jp/business/2023 #business #companies #china #foxconn #honhai #terrygou #taiwan #apple #tesla #amazon

  24. Chinese authorities are again shaking the confidence of foreign companies in the country with a series of arrests and an investigation into Foxconn Technology Group, Apple’s most important partner and one of the largest employers in China. japantimes.co.jp/business/2023 #business #companies #china #foxconn #honhai #terrygou #taiwan #apple #tesla #amazon

  25. Chinese authorities are again shaking the confidence of foreign companies in the country with a series of arrests and an investigation into Foxconn Technology Group, Apple’s most important partner and one of the largest employers in China. japantimes.co.jp/business/2023 #business #companies #china #foxconn #honhai #terrygou #taiwan #apple #tesla #amazon

  26. So #TerryGou's long saga to the presidential office continues. He's nominated an actress as his running mate with #TammyLai (who needs experience in #politics, anyway?), named his ego-centered political movement unironically the "mainstream public opinion alliance (smells of #populism a wee bit) and still wants to unite the three opposition candidates on ONE ticket - provided he's on that ticket.
    Whatever you do, don't vote for Gou, folks.
    #Taiwan #elections
    focustaiwan.tw/politics/202309

  27. So #TerryGou's long saga to the presidential office continues. He's nominated an actress as his running mate with #TammyLai (who needs experience in #politics, anyway?), named his ego-centered political movement unironically the "mainstream public opinion alliance (smells of #populism a wee bit) and still wants to unite the three opposition candidates on ONE ticket - provided he's on that ticket.
    Whatever you do, don't vote for Gou, folks.
    #Taiwan #elections
    focustaiwan.tw/politics/202309

  28. I know I’ve said this before, but…

    Every day that Terry Gou says something new and stupid I can only think of Wimp Lo in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.

    Gou even thinks he was “chosen” by Mazu! It’s too perfect!

    #台灣 #郭台銘 #媽祖 #Taiwan #TerryGou #Mazu

  29. I know I’ve said this before, but…

    Every day that Terry Gou says something new and stupid I can only think of Wimp Lo in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist.

    Gou even thinks he was “chosen” by Mazu! It’s too perfect!

    #台灣 #郭台銘 #媽祖 #Taiwan #TerryGou #Mazu