Apple in China paints a picture of a company that took Steve Jobs personality to heart. From Tony Blevin’s making deals that put workers in dire situations at Foxconn so that the company could hit the prices Apple forced on them, to Tim Cook going back on his 2017 statement about staying silent in the face of unjustness being the loudest form of agreement with the terrible acts, Apple’s move to China doesn’t look good.
Apple is in a tight spot, integrated so tightly into China based manufacturing so that it must tow the line of the Chinese Communist Party or risk retaliation in the form of manufacturing being shut down. McGee asks a good question at the end, while we lionize Tim Cook now for his manufacturing and deal prowess, will we later see how he sold out the United States in a quest for profits. Training hostile nations how to make things better than is possible in the US and selling out any possibility of US manufacturing catching up within the next decade.
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