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Scaling manufacturing power: Apple in China, key lessons for India
One company turned China into a manufacturing powerhouse. Now India must ride the diversification wave to do the same
Akash Prakash
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I am in the middle of reading this fascinating book, Apple in China – The Capture of the World's Greatest Company. The book has been written by Patrick McGee, a Financial Times journalist based in San Francisco and responsible for covering Apple. The book tells two intersecting stories. First, how Apple moved from being just days away from bankruptcy in 1996 to becoming the most valuable company in the world within a span of 15 years. Second, it traces the contribution Apple has made to transforming China from a third-world, low-skill manufacturing base into the world's largest and most sophisticated
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